Article January 7, 1928 Issue

Fidelity and Faith

JAMES WARDLE

To the student of Christian Science whose healing may seem to be delayed, the incident recorded in Luke, thirteenth chapter, is pregnant with hope and assurance. The incident deals with the case of a woman who had suffered for eighteen years from what to-day might be called a chronic form of rheumatism. She "was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself."

It is interesting to note that the synagogue was a place in which the people met on the Sabbath day for prayer and for the reading of the law and the prophets, and that, although this woman was a cripple, she was not prevented from attending. Probably it was her wont to go there regularly to hear the Word of God. Her presence certainly indicated the desire to know more of Him. And would she not there hear the words read from the book of Isaiah, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price"?

This woman thirsted for the living God. And we read in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 2), "The desire which goes forth hungering after righteousness is blessed of our Father, and it does not return unto us void." She may often have heard read also, and doubtless had often voiced, the words of the Psalmist, "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."

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