Article August 7, 1920 Issue

Steadfastness

MABEL ERNST

WHEN the light of Truth first appears midst the chaotic beliefs of mortal mind, the individual feels as if he were inhabiting another world; the old false beliefs and fears begin to drop away, one by one, and all things become new. As the student realizes that he lives and moves and has his being in Mind, instead of in matter, he spontaneously gives utterance to the language of Spirit and finds that he can, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 418), "speak the truth to every form of error."

If happens not infrequently that our very first glimpse of Truth raises us from the depths of darkness and despair, but afterwards we are obliged patiently to go over the entire groundwork of human experience, in order that we may uproot every seed which error has sown, and be wholly free. This is when discouragement would try to thrust itself upon us if we would let it; but we know that a student of mathematics does not become discouraged when he is required to solve one difficult problem after another, because he knows that each problem correctly solved increases his proficiency in mathematics; likewise the student of Christian Science does not become tired and discouraged when his problems become more difficult and require a firmer and more steadfast allegiance to Principle, because he knows that each problem, solved through absolute reliance upon Principle, hastens the day when he will be able to solve every problem in human experience through divine metaphysics.

In "Miscellaneous Writings," Mrs. Eddy says (p. 340): "There is no excellence without labor; and the time to work is now. Only by persistent, unremitting, straightforward toil; by turning neither to the right nor to the left, seeking no other pursuit or pleasure than that which cometh from God, can you win and wear the crown of the faithful." Continuing further, on the same page she also says: "The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance. Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God."

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