Parachutes, fire escapes, locks and keys, safety belts in cars, gloves for taking hot dishes out of the oven—should we use them? Does use of such human precautionary devices conflict with the requirement of Christian Science to depend on God, divine Spirit, for our safety and healing?
Mrs. Eddy writes, "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized."Science and Health, p. 167; But elsewhere she warns: "One should not tarry in the storm if the body is freezing, nor should he remain in the devouring flames. Until one is able to prevent bad results, he should avoid their occasion."p. 329;
Destructive conflagrations, accidents, criminal situations, are errors of material sense, deflections of mortal mind. They do not exist in God, Truth; and God, Truth, is not in them. God does not need material devices to offset the dangers of these unnatural phenomena, for to Him they do not exist. And through understanding God's allness we can overcome not only bad results arising from these false images of thought but also the false images themselves.
