Article August 9, 1947 Issue

FIDELITY

RUTH GAZZAM HAIGHT

It sometimes seems as if all of our human experience were made up of dependence on or need of some person or persons to help us. This belief is responsible for much of the confusion and unhappiness and discord in home and business, state and nation. It makes situations so involved that many times there seems no way out.

For long years there had been a lack of completeness in the writer's life which seemed to permeate every phase of it. It appeared as if this person or that person should or could make the way easier, and a fear of her own inadequacy to master the situation haunted her. She had had much help in Christian Science and had given prayerful thought to her own completeness as a child of God, but there seemed no permanent solution to her problem. Then there came a period of mental and physical exhaustion and she turned more humbly than ever to the Bible and to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and the other writings of Mary Baker Eddy.

Simplicity is the keynote of Christian Science! This brief statement of fact came with startling clearness to the confused thought of this student, and suddenly the pattern of man's completeness—of her own, everyone's—opened out before her and brought a renewal of joy, purpose, and enlightenment such as she had rarely experienced. Then followed a glorious unfoldment of the meaning of fidelity, fidelity to God and to our understanding of the all-pervading goodness of the creator and His creation. All those who are obedient to the one divine Principle of all good must inevitably express its harmony and completeness in every phase of their living.

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