Article June 20, 1977 Issue

Unswerving trust in God is rewarded

Active Faith

DAVID D. CREIGHTON

I lay on the ground unable to move, a full day's hike from civilization. My hiking companions had just found me lying several hundred feet from camp, incapacitated with back pains. An evening chill began to set in as the sun dropped below the surrounding peaks.

What should we do? Send for a helicopter evacuation, which would arrive the next day? Put together a makeshift stretcher? Have someone hike out to call a Christian Science practitioner?

Mrs. Eddy presents a challenging solution: "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." Science and Health, p. 1; In the face of all these alternatives her words stood out to me like a beacon—"absolute faith that all things are possible to God."

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