Editorial May 8, 1926 Issue

Steadfastness

Duncan Sinclair

Mortals are always tending to vacillate between extremes. One moment sees them intent on some scheme or other; the next may find them engaged in quite a different manner. Unenlightened thought is ever prone to act in this way, because it lacks an understanding of God, divine Principle.

Christ Jesus experienced the lack of steadfastness among his first disciples. He had loved them with a great tenderness during the time of his ministry; he had taught them of God out of the fullness of his understanding, and had demonstrated to them in numerous healings the power of the spiritual understanding he possessed; and still, after he had been delivered into the hands of those who sought to destroy him, "all the disciples forsook him, and fled." Later on, he was actually denied by one of them, Peter, in the words, "I know not the man." It seemed that for the time being evil had gained the mastery over all of the little band, with the exception of the great Master himself. But the seeming victory of evil was only temporary; for it is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles that soon after Christ Jesus had risen from the grave and ascended above material sense, "when the day of Pentecost was fully come, ... they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." After that the disciples remained steadfast and true, never wavering from the faith and understanding which the inspired teaching of the greatest of all spiritual Teachers had inspired.

Early in the history of the Christian church, the same lack of steadfastness became discernible; for had not Paul to write to the Galatians, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage;" and to the Corinthians, "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord;" and again, "Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong"?

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