Article March 7, 1953 Issue

"STABILITY OF THY TIMES"

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

NATALIE G. FORCE

A National magazine recently published a letter from a high school boy protesting the burdens which his generation had inherited from its elders. In his reply the editor stated that he could well understand the young man's position, since in World War I he himself had expressed the same complaint and in World War II had heard his son do the same. He then pointed out that his correspondent said that he believed in "sound economy, integrity, honesty, and a righteous way of life," and that these ideas, though the issue might have to be fought and refought, were the saving hope of the world.

Human history seems to repeat itself, sometimes in new outward forms, and in nothing is this more true than in the belief in turbulent times. Confusion and change have always been inherent in material thinking. Stability is never to be found except in rejecting the mortal sense for some degree of understanding of the spiritual, God-governed universe.

Followers of the one God have always acknowledged His power to deliver men from evil. It is written in Isaiah (33:5, 6): "The Lord is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness. And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation." Christ Jesus further emphasized and demonstrated the present possibility of salvation from evil, but it remained for our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, to interpret the Master's teaching that through spiritually scientific thinking one can here and now dissociate his thought and affairs from the disruptions of the human scene. Not only can he do this, but he can lessen the sum total of belief in evil and benefit the receptive thought everywhere.

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