Article June 29, 1940 Issue

Persistence in Truth

WILLIAM S. BEACH

The student of Christian Science endeavors to derive profitable lessons from the events taking place about him. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 269), "Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul."

One day, a student who had tried to understand and profit by this statement was watching a laborer working on a building which was being torn down. The man was swinging a heavy sledge hammer over a piece of stone several inches in thickness. Although his blows fell steadily, they apparently had no effect. As he persisted, however, all at once, without warning, the mass shattered into several pieces.

The student saw in this incident a parallel to many of his experiences in breaking down the false material laws imposed by mortal mind. The prophet Jeremiah represents God as saying, "Is not my word like as a fire? . . . and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?" Inasmuch as "with God all things are possible," every problem to be worked out in Christian Science should be approached with the acknowledgment of the infinite power of divine Mind. Under God's government, good does not ebb and flow, but is permanent and normal. Mrs. Eddy, who discovered the truth of being, proved the power of God to heal, and throughout her writings students are encouraged to demonstrate spiritual understanding, which results in healing. When the light of ever-present Truth illumines one's consciousness, correction is immediate, for light and darkness cannot exist together.

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