Article February 23, 1929 Issue

Unfailing Principle

HARRY CALVIN MEEK

Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has asked two very important questions, and answered them. She writes (p. 3): "Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution. Shall we ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own work? His work is done, and we have only to avail ourselves of God's rule in order to receive His blessing, which enables us to work out our own salvation."

In the working out of any problem rules must be employed and strictly adhered to. As is usually the case, preparation by intensive study, patience, and perseverance, often covering many years, are requisite before the full unfoldment of an ideal can appear. The working out of a plan to its completion often holds valuable spiritual lessons for one who ponders the question seriously; and such was the case in the experience of a young mining engineer early in his career.

This one, with others of his classmates in the closing days of their college work, was being carefully taught the theory and rules underlying the successful working out of the oft-repeated problem in a mining engineer's experience of "holing through." The professor told them that they would soon be called upon to drive tunnels through the mountains, under rivers, or underground to connect shafts with ore bodies lying hundreds, perhaps thousands, of feet apart. Great stress was laid on the importance of precision in making the survey, and on the necessity of careful checking of the computations with continual watchfulness, in order to insure giving a true line or course by which to "hole through" safely and correctly.

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