One's safety is often considered to be a matter of chance, so much so that what is sometimes called the safety of one's own home becomes a mockery, for many accidents seem to occur in this supposedly safe place. To be safe, one must be obedient to invariable law, the law of God, then he can never be the victim of chance or accident.
Christian Science shows why this fact is true, for it explains that man, created in the image and likeness of God, includes nothing that can be subject to accident or chance. The mortal evidence that we are subject to such conditions does not disprove the fact that man is always safe in divine Science. Science teaches that a mortal, subject to inharmony, is not man, but a mistaken concept of man as created by God. And the conditions which surround this supposed concept are as unreal as the concept itself. If this statement seems radical, does not the Bible say (Isa. 2:22), "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?"
A dictionary definition of the word "safety" is, "The quality or state of not presenting risks: safeness." Some may feel that this definition refers to environment and not to the nature of the individual. But even in human experience this is found not to be so. For if two individuals are exposed to the same environment, one may never have an accident, while the other may have many. Is it not possible that the answer to these differing experiences in the same environment may be found in the words by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 462): "Are thoughts divine or human? That is the important question"?
