Article June 15, 1946 Issue

On Being Wholehearted

FREDERICK L. BROOKS

In Christian Science, no less than in any other enterprise, it takes wholehearted effort to achieve success. Whoever heard of a halfhearted musician or mathematician achieving noteworthy results? Consistent, persistent, and unwavering devotion to the rules of music or mathematics is required. So it is in Christian Science. As the Apostle James wrote (James 1:6), "He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed."

How can we best prove ourselves wholehearted and sincere Christian Scientists? Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, effectively answers this question on page 167 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she exhorts us to "radical reliance on Truth." The complete quotation is, "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized."

Radical reliance completely rules out any tendency to drop one's standards to the level of only now and then relying on Truth or of becoming discouraged and hence apathetic if we meet with a problem which seems to present unusual difficulties. Only radical reliance can be depended upon to assure the freedom and dominion to which our status as God's children entitles us.

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