Editorial May 24, 1930 Issue

Faithfulness

Violet Ker Seymer

In Hosea it is written, "I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord." Could any greater assurance be given than that men shall "know the Lord" and be faithful to this knowledge? Spiritual understanding, coupled with fidelity, can prevail over every phase of evil belief. Faithfulness is not to be regarded as a limited or fluctuating concept of mortals, nor as a quality liable to be swayed by adverse circumstances. God-bestowed fidelity is stable, reliable, and there is no limit set to this spiritual characteristic of man in God's likeness.

The Christian Scientist sets himself to prove that no problem, no severe test, can render him faithless to his God in thought, word, or deed. His defense lies in the knowledge that spiritual strength and fidelity are forever inherent in man as God's reflection. Infidelity and vacillation are therefore unreal, for God has endowed man with the rocklike quality of faithfulness to divine Principle.

In admonishing Titus regarding Christian duty Paul writes, "In doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech, that cannot be condemned; ... not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity." Fidelity and kindred qualities guard the ingress and egress of thought and impel one to express with courage the specific truth needed for each occasion. So one is safeguarded against moral cowardice or against lenience with error in one's self or in another. Again, fidelity is allied to divine wisdom, causing one to listen before speaking, and to lift thought in prayer before deciding upon a line of action. In short, faithfulness waits on divine guidance, is receptive to it, and unflinchingly obeys it.

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