June tells of the sweetest fulfilment of hope, and in its warm sunshine the dreariest and coldest winter days are forgotten. As we look upon its prodigal display of beauty, we are impressed with the seemingly rapid transition from the bareness of the trees and fields in the early spring, to the present hour when they appear "with verdure clad," and we may well recall the Master's words, "If God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you?"
In nature's great panorama mortals behold a manifestation of God's perfect ideas which, however, are but imperfectly discerned through the distorting lenses of material sense. When we attempt to interpret existence materially, we lose sight of the beauty and true meaning of nature and of life, and because this false sense disappoints the immortal craving for the spiritual, the weary heart cries out, "How long, O Lord?" and in answer to this cry the good word of promise comes down the years, like a reviving breath from the ocean, "In due season we shall reap, if we faint not." How significant are these simple words! but, alas! their contingency, "if we faint not," is too often forgotten, and of this our Leader says, "Here Christian Science is the sovereign panacea, giving strength to the weakness of mortal mind,—strength from the immortal and omnipotent Mind,—and lifting humanity above itself, into purer desires, even into spiritual power and good-will to man" (Science and Health, p. 407).
Enlisted as we are in so noble a cause, our hearts will surely be inspired to endure, and our feet will be kept in the true path until the goal be won. Whatever the purpose of noble endeavor, however arduous the tasks required in the effort to ameliorate suffering and to abolish wrong, all who are worthy press on, for they realize as the present result of their travail, the overcoming of evil in themselves, and they must know that this is a sure prophecy of the ultimate triumph of good and disappearance of all evil, sin, disease, and death.
