To every army commander, exploiting success is good tactics. Whenever his forces make a breakthrough, that is the moment for all-out effort to widen the gap, to sever the enemy's supply lines and give him no time to regroup and counterattack. That way lies victory.
To a Christian Scientist with an apparently unyielding problem, the battle lines may sometimes seem locked. Healing, the outward evidence of Truth's supremacy over the difficulty, may seem long arriving. Then suddenly things begin to improve.
The temptation may be to relax one's efforts and believe that all is now well because healing is on the way. The actual necessity, however, is for extra effort: the pouring in of one's spiritual reserves, which daily study and, above all, prayer abundantly supply. Mortal thought need be given no opportunity to regroup and once more present its beliefs as impregnable frontline facts. Now is the time to break through the outward evidence of the problem and make the final attack on its base, the fears and beliefs from which it sprang.
