Persistence underlies all successful human endeavor. The cattle drover exemplifies this in moving his animals overland. He must persist in the right direction and in the right way, preventing the intrusion of any extraneous, local cattle into his herd.
To every discouraged sufferer struggling for weeks or months or even longer to overcome some threatening disease, Christian Science brings the assurance that, however severe the situation, he can and will make it to his goal of healing. But, like the cattle drover, he must persist in the right way. His thinking, like the drover's cattle, must be patiently, persistently disciplined to respond to the right control—the governance of the Christ.
Being spiritually mental, this control acts as a law of exclusion to every infiltrating, stampeding, distressing sensation of diseased physicality. These are never physical sensations or symptoms, however convincing such may appear, but are mental suggestions that are controllable. We can and must keep them out of thought. Without our consent they cannot establish themselves as physical conditions to be seen and felt.
