Editorial July 4, 1970 Issue

Out of Adversity, Joy

Naomi Price

Many people know from experience that events that seem disastrous can eventually prove to be blessings. Frustrated plans have often been followed by better opportunities. Employment or friends lost through jealousy and malice have been replaced by others more congenial. Home or business destroyed by hurricane, flood, or war has been renewed in an improved form.

Such occurrences are not a matter of chance or good luck. There exists a divine law of compensation and development, and even without an understanding of it people sometimes benefit greatly from its operation.

Christian Science now explains this law and shows how every adverse human circumstance can become a stepping-stone to progress if it is rightly and resolutely handled through the understanding of divine reality. Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares." ^{Science and Health, p. 574;}