THERE is no doubt that most of us come to Christian Science seeking something we feel we have lost,—wealth, health, happiness, our faith in God or in man, or all of these together. Feeling keenly the loss of our prized possessions, we have usually sought frantically to regain them by searching in every direction save the right one, until our weary footsteps have finally been directed to Christian Science. This prevailing tendency of the so-called human mind to feel within itself a sense of loss and limitation may be tenderly solaced by the three parables of lost possessions given in the fifteenth chapter of Luke.
Knowing full well the pathos of this particular phase of human existence, the compassionate Saviour gave us the three parables on lost possessions, richly compensating every belief in loss and lack that mankind may experience. In the second parable we read: "What woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost."
The cheering invitation to rejoice with us over the finding of our lost treasures of health, happiness, and trust in God is reverberating throughout the civilized world wherever our church services are held, a Christian Science lecture is given, or our literature is sent. Some of us had spent many fruitless years in seeking our lost possessions, until, weary and sick of heart, we had almost lost hope. We may recall it was at the darkest hour that some kind friend or neighbor hailed us cheerily, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found that which was lost. And in rejoicing at our neighbor's good fortune, we, perchance, were induced to turn the light of Christian Science upon our own darkened senses, and sweep diligently the recesses of thought; and in so doing we, too, found our long-lost treasures.
