A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST went into her garden one sunny morning to examine a flowering shrub and found that it was completely covered with bees, their golden bodies moving rapidly from flower to flower. In the center of this mass of movement sat a colored butterfly with outspread wings, and although the bees climbed ceaselessly over its body in their determination to reach the flowers, the lovely creature was quite undisturbed. The Scientist noticed the patience, persistence, and tirelessness of the bees, intent upon finding the nectar necessary for honey-making, and she also noticed the detachment and poise of the butterfly.
Desiring to profit spiritually from what she had seen, the student dwelt upon these words of Mrs. Eddy in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 252): "Have one God and you will have no devil. Keep yourselves busy with divine Love. Then you will be toilers like the bee, always distributing sweet things which, if bitter to sense, will be salutary as Soul; but you will not be like the spider, which weaves webs that ensnare."
The student pondered the words, "be toilers like the bee, always distributing sweet things." She had rejoiced in the healing and saving power of Christian Science for some years, but she realized that she had not, until that moment, been actually cognizant of the sweetness of its truths, which uplift, comfort, and redeem mankind. Yet the assured sense of man's spiritual relationship to God, as revealed in divine Science, is the greatest source of inspiration to mankind.
