Article May 10, 1958 Issue

ON TAKING A STAND

CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON DORMAN

History records many instances where men of great moral or physical courage have changed the course of events by taking a stand for what they believed to be right.

When the children of Israel were lamenting (Ex. 14:12), "It had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness," Moses encouraged them by saying, "Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will shew to you to day."

It was Moses' moral courage that enabled him to lead his people out of slavery and bring them to the land of promise. His stand for spirituality released them from physical slavery, but also, as Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 200), "Moses advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and illustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind."

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