Article September 14, 1940 Issue

"Be ye stedfast"

HELEN HIXON

In I Corinthians we read, "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." What comfort, encouragement, and strength these words offer to those who faithfully strive to follow the Christ! In time of strain and the pressure of world tension, made apparent in so many ways, when mortal sense would argue that evil is prospering and good overshadowed, how inspiring and renewing to read again this assurance that our "labour is not in vain" when we are working with God, even though the path for the moment may seem dark!

Christian Scientists have need now, perhaps more than ever before, to stand fast in the truth they have learned and proved through the understanding of the Scriptures gained from the study of Christian Science. Christian Scientists need to stand firm, not only for their own peace and strength, but also for the sake of a world sorely needing their steadfast, unmovable realization that God governs; that His spiritual creation alone is real; that all which opposes this divine reality, however powerful and aggressive it may seem to be, is but a mistaken belief, an illusion, which must at length disappear before the revelation of Truth.

"Human hate has no legitimate mandate and no kingdom," writes the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 454 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In spite of error's arrogant assertions and claim to power, we can be steadfast and unmovable in our conviction and declaration that it "has no legitimate mandate and no kingdom," because, as our Leader adds in the same passage, "Love is enthroned." We can hold firmly to the fact that evil has no reality, because Love alone is real and true, and that because evil is a lie it will be found out and replaced by truth.

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