Article March 25, 1944 Issue

The Anchor of Hope

ELEANOR CREIGHTON

In the early days of her study, one student of Christian Science found it difficult to grasp the essential thought of the power and presence of God, ever-available and unchangeable good. Her healing from depressing ill-health was slow, and there were days when the ability to hold to the truth of God's allness seemed just possible and no more.

One morning, during the study of the Lesson-Sermon for the week, the cloud which had been hiding the light of Truth began to lift as the following words were read on pages 40 and 41 of the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed, but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us." Her attention was arrested by the thought that there was something for each individual to do before he had a right to claim any reward in the kingdom. He had to cast the anchor himself—in other words, to dispel doubt, fear, foreboding from consciousness by replacing each such erroneous thought with trust, courage, and loving faith. Then, when once this kingdom of right-mindedness had been found, there would follow the mastery of untoward conditions by the realization of God's power and presence.

Writers have long used the figure of an anchor to symbolize hope, and the mere thought of a ship safely anchored, gallantly riding the waves, even in storms, suggests stability.

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