Editorial August 3, 1981 Issue

Standing

NATHAN A. TALBOT

Your rating in a popularity poll? The only option left when all seats on the bus are taken? No, this message has to do with healing.

There may be times when we have prayed for what seems an eternity, and we've been as faithful and earnest in our work as possible, but a solution has not yet emerged. We know our motives are right. We've been dedicated in our efforts to find an answer. Have we reached the point of turning to God in great humility and admitting that we're unsure now what to do about the adversity facing us?

Perhaps this is the time to square our shoulders and feel the spirit of what Mary Baker Eddy conveyed when she quoted Martin Luther: "Here I stand. I can do no otherwise; so help me God! Amen!"^{Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 268.} Those words certainly are not an expression of weakness. They are not words of capitulation. The statement represented for Luther a culmination of work that was to usher in sweeping changes for Christian theology.