Article July 26, 1969 Issue

Governed by God, Not by Chance

JACK HILLMAN THORNTON

When we experience good fortune, we may be tempted to think or say, "I certainly was lucky!" Others may voice this sentiment also. And conversely, when ill fortune seems our lot, we may say, "I just didn't have a chance" or "It just isn't my lucky day." Good-byes often end with someone saying, "The best of luck to you!"

It is rather humorous to see these casual remarks in print, for their absurdity becomes more poignant as we recognize them for what they are, namely, suggestions coming in the guise of our thinking as an explanation of some good or bad situation. It is just as humorous to see that from the same source come the temptations so brazenly placed before us to join in spectacular money giveaway programs.

In every instance it is simply a case of the testimony of the five physical senses suggesting that man and his being are subject to chance rather than to God. Mrs. Eddy, commenting on the physical senses, says, "Accepting the verdict of these material senses, we should believe man and the universe to be the football of chance and sinking into oblivion." It is enlightening and encouraging to read on in the same paragraph, "Destroy the five senses as organized matter, and you must either become non-existent, or exist in Mind only; and this latter conclusion is the simple solution of the problem of being, and leads to the equal inference that there is no matter." Rudimental Divine Science, pp. 5, 6;

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