Article June 5, 1937 Issue

"Hold that line"

[Written Especially for Young People]

ROWENA MC DANIEL

It was the last quarter of the football game, and there had been no score. The home team was valiantly defending its goal. The other team was within two feet of a touchdown, and the supporters of the home team were making the air resound with the demand, "Hold that line; hold that line; hold that line." Four times the opposing team stormed that wall of men, but not one inch did they gain. If any man had failed to hold his position, an alert player on the other side would have found that weak point and perhaps have broken through for a touchdown. The play of the home boys was not spectacular, but with the ball again in their possession they advanced steadily down the field into their opponents' territory. They were able to hold every foot they gained, and finally pushed over the goal line for the only touchdown of the afternoon.

We may learn a lesson from the sturdy boys who presented such an unbroken front that they were able to withstand the attack of the "enemy"—and win.

A Christian Science student was working one day to repel the attack of a false belief of disease. The way to meet the problem came to her through many statements of Truth from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. These truths flooded her consciousness, and she saw the unreality of any power opposed to God—whether it was called disease, fear, accident, or any other form of evil.

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