Harmony is, and not of past or future years. This is the present, eternal condition of the universe, though the painter of fleeting shadows cannot so admit, cannot so comprehend. Behind the lowering clouds of bursting storm, as well as the tint of morning splendor, shines the light of day. Up and beyound must go the pilgrim thought and be satisfied only as the gaze becomes accustomed to new light and a new dwelling-place,—that of Causation.
The Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, in "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures," on page 63, calls upon the sleeper to look out upon the broken morn, when she says, "Causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others it relates to human progress." When the lid of the eye is lifted and it is seen how futile is the effort to find Life or Intelligence in matter, then will thought stand a willing disciple at the portal of Causation.
It is clearly seen that to have a universal effect we must have a universal Cause. Harmony is but the expression of the never-failing law of Good. Is it reasonable, then, to endeavor to have it in our consciousness and not to consider God in our premises of Being? Much wiser, much happier, would it be to have Love—God—as our basis for living, being assured in awakened understanding that where God is there is and must be harmony. At this point, however, the question to be settled by each is God's omnipresence. The straight and narrow path leads one through reason to Christ, and when that reason buds forth into the never-fading bloom of demonstration, the Truth is indeed established to that one.
