Article July 31, 1937 Issue

Hold Fast!

[Written Especially for Young People]

FLORENCE I. EDWARDS

As a student of Christian Science walked to the corner one morning to take a bus to her place of business, her steps dragged wearily. She had awakened with a physical difficulty, and the temptation had come to remain at home. As she rode along in the bus she noticed that, after each stop for passengers, when the bus started again the conductor would say to those going to the upper deck, "Hold fast!"

These two words set the student thinking, and it came to her that she, too, must hold fast to the truth about herself until she saw the nothingness of the claim which was professing to handle her. She remembered what Mary Baker Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 495): "When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought. Let neither fear nor doubt overshadow your clear sense and calm trust, that the recognition of life harmonious—as Life eternally is—can destroy any painful sense of, or belief in, that which Life is not."

Just as it was necessary for the passengers to hold fast as they went up the steps, so was it necessary for the student to cling to the truth as taught in Christian Science, so that her thought might be elevated to a higher plane. She realized that she had allowed her thinking to go down to a materialistic level, and that now she must lift it by the power of Truth to the realm of the real or spiritual. She recalled that, as a child, when coasting downhill on a sled, she would hold on tighter when she reached a curve than when she was on the straight course. There was never any sense of trepidation, for she knew that, holding on tightly, she could not slip off. She had always looked forward to the event. And in the present situation she could joyfully hold to the truth until the false picture was blotted out of her consciousness.

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