Does having a real valued cauchy sequence on a function in a compact space imply the function is continous on that space?

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I had to prove for a homework assignment this function

$$ s_n(x) = \sum_{i=0}^n (-1)^i \frac{ x^{2i+1}}{(2i+1)!} $$

is a Cauchy sequence with respect to the sup norm for $$ s_n : [-M,M] \to \mathbb{R} $$ where M is any positive real number.

The goal is to show this sequence converges uniformly to the sine function, but the theorem I want to use requires $ s_n $ to be continuous, which I think is obvious because it is a power series and therefore a sum of real valued polynomials. But I wanted to know if there was a direct relationship between having a Cauchy sequence on a power series that defines a function and the function itself being continuous.

Thank you.