Article December 11, 1909 Issue

STEADFASTNESS

ANNA HAY DETRICH.

Paul said to the Corinthians: "My beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable;" and Christian Scientists should at all times keep this advice in clear mental view, by recognizing the importance of giving loyal support to our publications. With the advent of The Christian Science Monitor we were provided with a valuable addition to our means of active progression as opposed to a merely tentative attitude. In any field of action we must, if effective workers, take a definite stand and be ready to accept all means of strengthening our position. We cannot, with benefit to ourselves, discriminate against any of the means provided, on the plea that we have not the time to use them, but we must lay hold of the help offered and rise to meet it, rejoicing that wisdom has made such provision for us.

To say we have not the time to read the Christian Science publications is to admit limitation, and this admission is the very thing that we should avoid. We all know how much we value the Journal, the Sentinel, and the Quarterly, but when we first came into Science we felt an extreme sense of limitation as to time in which to read and study them. Then, as we gradually worked up to the point where not one issue was neglected, how much strength and light was demonstrated through this source. How the teachings of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the first of this wonderful literature given us by our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, have been more deeply impressed in our consciousness by this system of reading, and now in the Monitor we have another help of which we must lay hold and make use.

This publication differs not at all from the others in the spirit of its message. Its only difference is that it brings us together with the news of what our brother man is doing to help on the world's work, and it gives a daily uplifting thought of Truth. It does differ radically from the newspapers to which the world has heretofore been accustomed, in that there is no gossip, no idle talk, no airing of any one's private affairs. Paul's admonition, "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers," may be applied to the written as well as to the spoken word, and the observance of this wise counsel stands revealed in the Monitor. While in the manifold demands upon us we may at first find it something of a problem to devote any time to the reading of this publication, we may rest assured that there is a need for it, else it would not have been supplied, and as loyal Christian Scientists we should give it our unquestioning support, either by an annual or semiannual subscription, or by the daily purchase, as is most convenient. As with our other publications, we shall find that the demonstration of all the time needed for reading it will be made to our spiritual uplifting and our victory over the sense of limitation.

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