Article March 10, 1980 Issue

Stand fast!

RICHARD A. PEARSON

When soldiers take a strong point from an enemy and drive him out of it, they do not waste time celebrating. Nor, if they are combat veterans, do they wander off or go to sleep. Instead, when given the order to "stand fast," they dig in and fortify the position against possible counterattack designed to catch them off their guard and recapture the position.

Have you ever "stood fast" against evil, occupying some hard-won position? If you resist evil, fight temptation, wage war on sickness, battle materialism, or strive to eject wrong suggestions from your thinking, then you may rightfully think of yourself as a soldier—a soldier of God.

The Bible exhorts us to endure hardness as a good soldier of Christ; and our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, referred to her followers as having enlisted. She writes, "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good." Science and Health, p. 450;

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