Article August 29, 1931 Issue

"Stick to the truth of being"

JAMES K. WESTOVER

A STUDENT of Christian Science whose acquaintance with the subject had covered many years, and whose experiences included many satisfactory demonstrations of God's ever-presence, was nevertheless puzzled over his inability to solve a certain business problem. This disconcerting condition had seemed so persistent that it had almost caused the student to doubt the ability of Christian Science to operate in this particular field of correction.

After much prayer and study, however, the student's attention was drawn to a passage on page 418 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," wherein Mary Baker Eddy admonishes, "Stick to the truth of being in contradistinction to the error that life, substance, or intelligence can be in matter." A sudden illumination seemed to come from the first word of this injunction, so much so that it has ever since stood out to him as an important and pertinent word.

A dictionary defines the verb "stick" as to persist; to be firm in supporting; to be fixed; to remain. It now became apparent to the student that if he expected to rise above the conditions which had seemingly been outlined to him, he must necessarily follow our Leader's instructions to the full extent implied by her words. He saw that to "stick to the truth of being" meant that there must be no wavering, no temporary descending from the heights of true spiritual perspective, no indulging in unnecessary analyses of wrong material conditions. It was imperative that he keep his thought steadfastly and continuously in the realm of Truth. He must not look back. To use our Leader's words on page 261 of the Christian Science textbook, he must fix his gaze "on the realities supernal." He found that one meaning of "supernal" is "pertaining to things above." His eager thought then grasped the significance of the necessity of sticking "to the truth of being," lifting his thinking to the very highest level of the discerned truth about God and the universe, and man in God's likeness, and holding it there. Obedient to this requirement, he proceeded at once to put it into practice. The result was soon manifested in the complete solution of the business problem.

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