Article December 9, 1950 Issue

"THERE CAN BE NO ACCIDENTS"

WENONAH EVA RICHTER

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 424) Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection." Because God, Life, pure Mind, is conscious always and only of His own infinite goodness, perfection, and allness, accidents are unknown to Him. Therefore accidents must be forever unknown to man, God's image and likeness, the representative of Life, the individualized expression of perfect Mind.

Since Mind, Love, is All and fills all space, where then do seeming accidents occur? In the human experience, where both good and evil, Spirit and matter, appear powerful, and where man seems to be both material and spiritual. The supposititious opposite of divine Mind, which Christian Science calls mortal mind, says something like this: "You may be in an accident and be hurt. You see, I [Satan or error] do have power over you!"

Are we to believe these insinuations which imply that God sometimes turns over His sovereign power to a lesser power, evil; that He neglects to take good care of His offspring; that He is not the preserver of man; that His beloved son was created for some other purpose than to bear witness to His infinite, changeless perfection?

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