Editorial October 17, 1925 Issue

Steadfastness

Ella W. Hoag

How admirable is the quality of steadfastness! Even the most thoughtless will unite in commending that which never swerves from the right, but which clings to good in spite of every attempt to unsettle it. Steadfastness is always needed if one is to be successful. It has been said that "the secret of success is constancy to purpose." Steadfastness might also be said to be a necessary accompaniment to every other virtue; for without this element each virtue would lack that which is essential to its perfection.

In order to be steadfast one must be absolutely convinced that the thing for which he stands is right and true; for no one can continuously support something in which he has not fullest confidence. True steadfastness, therefore, must be fixed in God, divine Principle, since only in absolute, perfect Principle can be found that which is reliable and true, that which makes for security and strength, that which satisfies completely and permanently every holy desire and exalted purpose.

To the Christian Scientist the desire to be steadfast is born very early in his efforts to demonstrate the rules of the Science of being, and he soon sees that steadfastness must go with him all the way. He quickly recognizes that without this valuable quality even his highest purposes would fall to the ground, unsupported and unfulfilled. He knows that the desire to keep his every thought, word, and deed true to God must be held to steadfastly or no right fruition will result.

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