Editorial May 22, 1948 Issue

"THE STABILITY OF THY TIMES"

L. Ivimy Gwalter

"Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation." So wrote the prophet Isaiah (Isa. 33:6), and his words still glow with promise. What a wonderful word is "stability"! How one longs to feel its security! In the midst of the shifting dreams of sense, its ephemeralness and change, its political upheavals and economic crises, stability points to that which is fixed and permanent, reliable and sure.

Human theories seek stability through human means; governments try to stabilize their currencies, individuals to stabilize their affairs. But the human wisdom involved in such processes proves wanting, and the quicksands of sense are temporal, unstable, and insecure. Writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Unity of Good" (p. 14), "God is not the shifting vane on the spire, but the corner-stone of living rock, firmer than everlasting hills."

Christian Science reveals God as divine Principle, invariable, unfluctuating, all-encompassing, everlasting. Power, balance, strength, and permanence belong to Principle. Tenderness, security, assurance, and peace characterize its might. In Science, Principle is synonymous with immortal Love. The source, cause, and origin of all that exists, it embraces its effect within its own infinitude. Thus creation is forever held in the grasp of Life. In the oneness of Principle and its idea is security; here also is safety. Within the all-inclusiveness of Principle exists no element of uncertainty, unpredictability, fluctuation, or collapse. Neither stagnation nor torpor, excitement nor pressure, mars the rhythm of Principle or deflects the symmetry of Soul.

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