Consecrated Christian Scientists should be awake to the claims of the pernicious argument which mortal mind calls fatalism, because of the persistence of the suggestion that fate and chance play an important part in the everyday life of human beings. The belief that God knows aught of evil, or that He permits His children to be affected by it, is early learned to be false in the study of Christian Science. God knows no evil, and because of His omnipotence there is no power nor capacity for knowing it. Evil exists only as a false claim, and the belief that one's days are numbered or that chance may bring one at some unexpected time pain, disaster, or some other evil in spite of anything that he can do about it, is utterly false and foundationless.
Because of the insistence of the suggestion to the contrary, however, it behooves earnest Christian Scientists to "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health, p. 392). General mortal thought has adopted the belief that we are living in an age of violence; that we are constantly subject to uncontrolled evil forces; and that we can do nothing but resign ourselves to a fate which may ultimately await us. But Christian Science shows this belief to be without foundation in Truth, for the truth is that man's welfare and destiny are in the hands of Almighty God, infinite good. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 353): "We must give up the spectral at all points. We must not continue to admit the somethingness of superstition, but we must yield up all belief in it and be wise. When we learn that error is not real, we shall be ready for progress, 'forgetting those things which are behind.'" The work, therefore, that we as Christian Scientists have before us, is to stop admitting the somethingness of superstition, and to realize the allness of God, good, and the consequent nothingness of evil.
As Christian Scientists we should daily know that all that is real is already established in Mind, and that our days are governed by divine, unerring intelligence and not by chance or uncertainty. We have a right to know that our days afford constant opportunity to bless and to be blessed; that nothing can come to us but that which God sends, nor anything proceed from us but that which is the reflection of God. As a result of such knowing, our days will be constant unfoldments of good, and there will be no accidents, nor inharmonies of any kind, included in them. They will be peaceful, happy days, as God ordains that they should be.
