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Freedom from Accidents

From the April 1970 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Freedom from accidents doesn't just happen. It is never a sport of circumstance, a vagary of the mortal so-called laws of chance, of statistical averages, nor of superstitions built on astrology, numerology, palmistry, and the like.

Freedom from accidents, like all freedom, is definite and positive, a spiritually demonstrable fact. This is borne out by one of the Master's final instructions to his disciples. He said, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; ... they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them." Mark 16:17,18;

In the textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes, "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony." Then she goes on to say, "Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection." Science and Health, p. 424;

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