Article March 4, 1950 Issue

LUCK IS PAGAN SUPERSTITION

ESTHER JONES SLOAN

In Acts we read (17:22, 23): "Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." Mary Baker Eddy explains the word "unknown" in the Glossary of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as follows (p. 596): "That which spiritual sense alone comprehends, and which is unknown to the material senses." Then she adds, "Paganism and agnosticism may define Deity as 'the great unknowable;' but Christian Science brings God much nearer to man, and makes Him better known as the All-in-all, forever near."

Bowing down to the false belief of luck in any form is pagan superstition. This ungodlike belief is foreign to God's kingdom, which is the realm of reality, and it is no part of man's consciousness. Man made in God's image reflects forever all good.

A modern publication tells us that when the cause is known, anything ceases to be luck or chance. Twice yearly students of Christian Science study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly entitled "God the Only Cause and Creator." This is the one and only God, who is known and understood by His own creation, a creation which is wholly good.

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