Driving along great highways, one cannot fail to notice many provisions that have been made for the safety of travelers: wide and well-defined lanes; signs couched in words so simple that even those driving at the maximum speed allowed may read them without difficulty. Yet we may ask ourselves the question found in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, "Are material means the only refuge from fatal chances?" Science and Health, p. 394;
We are forced to conclude that there is no infallible material protection. Human thought has not conceived a law so flawless that deviation from it is impossible. Only as individual consciousness expands into spiritual comprehension of divine law can we feel the assurance of security for ourselves and others.
Centuries ago, when human safety was more often than not based on the strength of a man's arm or his ability to run from danger, the Psalmist sang, "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day." Ps. 119:97; The Old Testament, as well as the Gospels, are filled with instances of men's deliverance from threatened disaster or individual destruction, for even then there were men and women spiritually-minded enough to place their trust in a power higher than themselves. One story after another records the faith that looked to divine law rather than to human precautions for protection.
