Editorial June 18, 1960 Issue

"Accidents are unknown to God"

Helen Wood Bauman

Reasoning from a material standpoint, many people believe that it is not strange that in this machine age many accidents and disasters are reported. Mankind are transported in great numbers and with unprecedented speed, moving about in general has increased tremendously, and machines are employed in industry. But reasoning rightly from a spiritual standpoint, one knows that accidents should never occur. When the world learns through Christian Science that man is God's spiritual likeness, inseparable from Him as His expression and wholly subordinate to His directive control, accidents will cease.

In order to hasten this day and protect oneself and others from accidents, one needs to obtain a clear view of God as the governing Principle of the universe and to recognize the mesmeric and unreal nature of any appearance of lack of divine direction. Undoubtedly our heavenly Father would not make a universe or a man subject to chance or to destruction. God preserves His own creation and maintains perfect order eternally, for He is Love; and Love controls all reality.

The senses of God's man are purely spiritual, and they cognize only what God makes and does. Then accidents must belong to the consciousness of matter, to material sense, which seems to be part of one but which has no connection with divinity's image. It is in this supposed sense, or mortal mind, that accidents take place.

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