Article April 2, 1955 Issue

PERSEVERANCE

JEANNE ROE PRICE

Initial enthusiasm, eagerness, and zeal may mark one's start on a given course, but perseverance is needed to finish it. Perseverance is an essential quality of right thinking. "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything," a popular saying goes, meaning that if one does not stand courageously and steadfastly for that which is right, he will "fall for," or succumb to, any or all of the insidious temptations to do that which is not right.

Christ Jesus calls our attention to the value of perseverance when he tells us (John 8:31, 32), "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

A mother and three little girls were swimming one day in the surf of the Pacific Ocean when suddenly they felt a strong undertow sweeping them out to sea. Immediately they started to swim toward the shore. They had gone but a little way, however, when one of the children cried out, "Oh, Mother, I'm afraid!"' Instantly the mother called back: "This is no time to be afraid. Keep swimming!" The child did keep swimming, and in a short time they were all in the shallow water near the shore, from which they could easily wade to safety.

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