Editorial September 23, 1944 Issue

He Patiently Persisted

Paul Stark Seeley

There are certain qualities of character without which enduring success is unattainable. Two such qualities are patience and persistence. Edison, for example, is said to have made more than fifty thousand experiments before he perfected the incandescent electric light bulb. He attributed his success in evolving so many worthwhile inventions to ninety-nine per cent hard work and one per cent genius.

Christ Jesus graphically exemplified these indispensable qualities. Of him Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Jesus patiently persisted in teaching and demonstrating the truth of being" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 136, 137). He "patiently persisted"! He never wavered from his course. Resistance, opposition, condemnation, hatred could not divert him. He was impelled and strengthened not by human will, but by God's will. His patience and persistence were the outgrowth of his great faith in God and his assurance, born of spiritual understanding, that everyone who will patiently, day after day and year after year, persist in wisely directed effort can gain the Mind of Christ, that spiritual consciousness of existence which unites thought to God and environs man in Love's kingdom.

The hostility of the entrenched priesthood, the dullness and indifference of his hearers, he would not accept as barriers to the accomplishment of his life purpose. Patiently and persistently, yet very much alone, he went steadily forward, doing his work, proclaiming the presence of God and His kingdom, while he himself was ever growing into a clearer understanding of his sonship with the Father of us all.

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