Article March 2, 1935 Issue

Loyalty

GEORGE W. MOSES

Dictionaries define "loyal" and "loyalty" as follows: Devotedly constant and faithful in any relation implying trust and confidence; and, devoted allegiance to constituted authority. Elbert Hubbard has said: "Loyalty is that which prompts a person to be true to the thing he undertakes. It means definite direction, fixity of purpose, steadfastness. Loyalty makes the thing to which you are loyal, yours." Evidently, loyalty is a quality which is indispensable to success in any undertaking.

The quality of loyalty is essentially spiritual. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 50), "By loyalty in students I mean this,—allegiance to God, subordination of the human to the divine, steadfast justice, and strict adherence to divine Truth and Love."

As revealed to spiritual understanding, true loyalty is loyalty to God. This agrees with the requirements of the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." As various claims are made on his loyalty, the student of Christian Science finds it important to accept none which interferes with his "allegiance to God." As progress is made in spiritual understanding, Truth will guide him in the selection of his associations. And in all of his problems the Bible and Christian Science literature are ever-available aids.

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