Article July 19, 1952 Issue

"GOD'S UNERRING DIRECTION"

ALICE KINSMAN SMITH

To those whose existence is blighted by a belief that misfortunes are unavoidable, or that they come from some source beyond their control, Christian Science offers blessed hope and assurance in its teaching of the safety and harmony that obtain as God, divine Principle, is recognized as the supreme and controlling influence over all.

A much-loved and oft-quoted passage in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, reads thus (p. 424): "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony." Our Leader's statement that "accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind," is based on the scientific teaching that God, who is the creator of all, is absolute, infinite good and that His law must also be absolutely and infinitely good.

This is the only law that is in operation for His creation, and in it there are no loopholes and no weaknesses, no procrastination, no misinterpretation, no injustice. It is through law that God orders the perfect and complete creation recorded in the first chapter of Genesis. It is through law that He evolves the universe and man in a majesty that is never ending. This law cannot allow for or know any untoward occasion, any disaster, any emergency.

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