On page 91 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy writes: "The parable of 'the prodigal son' is rightly called 'the pearl of parables,' and our Master's greatest utterance may well be called 'the diamond sermon.'" In the Sermon on the Mount are to be found those declarations regarding blessedness called the Beatitudes. Among them is the statement, "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."
The term meekness, considered as mildness of temper or patience, has nothing to do with subservience to personal sense. To be meek is not to take what might be called a back seat, but, rather, to come forward into the light of Truth, and to shed that light in thought and deed wherever and whenever occasion presents itself and opportunity permits.
To be meek is to dwell in the sunlight and radiancy of His will. It is to rest in the consciousness of work well done as pleasing in His sight, regardless of mortal opinions, criticisms and persecutions, human commendation, or personal condemnation. Confident in the ultimate victory of righteousness, one can well wait for the right outcome which follows a selfless stand for Truth. To be meek is to be humbly willing to give up one's self-outlined desires and opinionated beliefs, to lose them all in the harmonious plan of the divine will. A meekness born of submission to God alone reaps justice and heavenly exaltation which a heart subdued and softened is fitted to receive.
