Article October 3, 1931 Issue

"Truth is used to waiting"

FREDERICK STARR CAMPBELL

THE statement from Mrs. Eddy's book "Miscellaneous writings" (p. 268), "Truth is used to waiting," contains much assurance and comfort for those who have set out on the Christ-way as revealed in Christian Science. In their manner of living these spiritual pilgrims may drop below the standard of holiness and may keenly feel their shortcomings; yet, whatever the lack or failure, whatever the condition or problem, the fact remains, fraught with cheer and encouragement for all, that "Truth is used to waiting."

If we slip and fall when traveling along the highway of righteous endeavor, this does not change or affect the road. The path lies before us always ready for our footsteps. The goal constantly beckons us onward, and it is for us to rise and resume our journey. Whatever our experiences may be, the Science of Christianity, comprising the demonstrable verities about God, man, and the universe, abides the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, bidding each one to understand and practice its Principle and rules.

The verity of righteous living is evident from an incident in the life of Moses. It will be recalled that the Hebrew leader, descending from the mountain where he had received the law, was moved to indignation at beholding the idolatry and apostasy of the Israelites, and dashed the tables of stone to the ground. What then? Did he thus sever his relationship with the Almighty? Had he exhausted the divine patience by his action? Not at all; for we read that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest." How grateful Moses must have felt for these instructions! He was to have another opportunity. A duplicate of the original Commandments was to be furnished him as a perpetual guide for human conduct. For in this same Scriptural passage is set forth the nature of Deity as "merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin."

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