Standing on the seashore recently and watching the tide slowly creep over the flat expanse of sand, my attention was caught by a sudden inrush of water, and I looked for the cause. Some distance away the breakers were rolling in over a ridge of rocks, and now and again a wave larger than the rest broke with such force that the effect was felt over the whole of the intervening space, and caused the apparently sudden disturbance at my feet.
It seemed an illustration of that "influx of divine Science" (Science and Health, p. 43) which one sometimes experiences in working for our cause, the explanation of which could often be traced by lifting one's perception to a broader view of the Christian Science movement as a whole. The faithful work of those at headquarters, and of all who are responsible for the successful working of the different branches of activity connected with the movement, must have its effect even to the "uttermost part of the earth."
As the waves manifest the effect of a force unseen by the physical senses, so all faithful work is the manifestation of a spiritual force originating not in mortals but in Him who has declared, "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."
