The great interest of the world in the Christian Science movement finds its inception largely in the fact that innately the whole human family is seeking for what it deems to be treasure. With some this treasure seems to he gold, and yet, when it has been acquired,it has often been found to be a burden, a care, rather than a thing of joy and happiness. It has sometimes even been found to be the means of fastening selfishness on one, and in this we see the fulfilment of the statement, "The love of money is the root of all evil." Another class of treasure seekers is that which believes the most desirable of all things to be the deepest knowledge of all things that are material, and this class has found that a search confined simply to material knowledge leads one far astray from the most desirable of all things, for many who are leaders in the forum of human opinion believe that they have lost all faith and confidence in God, and so, surely, have found their treasure turned into dross.
The treasure which the whole human family is really seeking is not something that is afar off, but something that may be had now and that the real man may not be separated from. The innate desire is for good, and the treasure for which the whole human family consciously and unconsciously is seeking is the realization that God is Love.
The realization that God is Love has seemed heretofore so transcendental as to be beyond the grasp of human consciousness, but, through Christian Science, we have come to know that apart from this realization all would be darkness and hopelessness. The light that Christian Science has thrown upon love is literally the light which "shineth in darkness: and the darkness comprehended it not." Love, as Christian Science teaches, is the manifestation of the very presence of God; in fact, is God. When we realize this, we know there is nothing for which we may look that is higher, greater, or holier; and when in our search we find even a faint perception of this love, a little dawning of the light, a little of the radiance of the infinite God, there comes in the heart a sense of happiness and freedom that no words may express.
