The sunbeams must have free course for their best effect. They may be excluded, and in that case, if carried far enough, cold and darkness and the destruction of all animal and vegetable life ensue. But it is hard to exclude the sunbeams wholly. They will fly round corners, creep through tiny crevices, penetrate solid substances, and fill and vitalize the universal atmosphere, till they become in a large degree the sources of life and health even where they are directly excluded.
It is thus with all goodness. It can never eat its morsel alone. It can never wholly live unto itself. No obscurity can hide it. No fetters can bind it. No valley can retain, no walls can confine, no mountains can wholly obstruct, all its radiance.
This is one of the glories of Christian Science. The prejudice against it is almost universal. But its power is well nigh irresistible. Error and opposition constantly receive of its beneficence. The utmost precautions against its power are seldom entirely effectual. Its blind enemies, "the fearful and the unbelieving," are often blest in spite of their efforts against it. As surely as the fire will warm and the sun will brighten, true and spiritual Christian Scientists, strong in the power divine, carry increased life and vigor wherever they go. They cannot do otherwise.
