How beautiful under Christian Science become the words: "For in him we live and move and have our being" (Acts, 17:18). As a Methodist I had scarcely the faintest conception of what these words were intended to mean, but as I study Christian Science the text unfolds itself and becomes pregnant with meaning and beautiful in its application to man. They are diamonds set in gold, which radiate and glisten beneath the scrutiny of Truth like jewels in a casket. For some time, I have been trying to conjure up a scene which would express in some measure the thought contained therein, and have been helped by the suggestion thrown out some time ago by one of your correspondents, who stated that God could be likened unto the ocean and we his children to the fish which dwell in the ocean. How beautiful the thought, and how true it is that we daily bathe in the ocean of God's love, for is not love omnipresent, and we therefore come in contact with it at every step we take and with every breath we draw? As yet we but dimly comprehend the thought that Love is a spiritual ocean filling all immensity, unfathomable in depth, limitless in height, and boundless in length and breadth. If we ascend to the pleiades and, standing on the highest summit of the loftiest mountain peak, look upward, still away beyond we see stars which are but on the borderland of God's spiritual ocean of Love. If we go downward as far as the remotest twinkle of the farthest star, we are still but on the threshold of infinitude. And yet this spiritual ocean of Love, occupying as it does every fraction of this immeasurable universe, is equally omnipotent in every part, and thus becomes to us, "a very present help in trouble."
As his creatures we are the natural habitants of this teeming, boundless ocean. We are not made from material differing from that which composes the spiritual ocean, not differing in specific gravity nor endowed with different life or mind, for this spiritual ocean comprises all weight, all Life, all Mind. We are simply the individualized expressions and separate reflections of the one spiritual, resistless, living ocean of Love, moving hither and thither by its one Life, one Intelligence, and one Mind, for there is no Life, no Intelligence or Mind outside of it.
