Editorial April 10, 1978 Issue

"Never bet on a sure thing"

Nathan A. Talbot

If there is wisdom in that old saying, how much more wisdom there must be in refusing to bet on an unsure thing! The surest thing mortal existence has to offer us is materialism. And any kind of materialism is a poor bet. But how often we place a large measure of trust in it and dependence on it.

Material existence is inherently undependable. It is never permanently stable and certain. The element of chance is fundamental to materiality. Uncertainty, accident, the unexpected, the unknown—all are basic to an existence structured in matter.

In the measure we love God, we can be free of putting our trust in materiality and therefore free of the mortal claims of chance. God, the one divine Mind, is all-knowing. He is infinite, ever present. The universe of Mind is a universe of ideas—complete, whole, definite. Mind and its ideas are never uncertain, indefinite, in doubt. All of true creation is the outcome of what God, infinite Mind, is constantly knowing.

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