IN every activity of the Christian Science movement there arise times when error seems to pervade the mental atmosphere and threatens to destroy the harmony which should prevail among those working for the furtherance of the Cause which all true Christian Scientists have at heart. During one of these periods of apparent want of unity, a student and worker gained much light and healing from a careful study of Hymn 11 of the Christian Science Hymnal, the first verse of which runs:
"Why search the future and the past?
Why do ye look with tearful eyes,
And seek, far off, for Paradise?
Beneath thy feet, Life's pearl is cast."
"Life's pearl," the "pearl of great price" which Mrs. Eddy has given to the world in Christian Science, is under the feet of those to whom the truth of being is still sealed—still unrevealed. But, though trampled under the feet of men, the pure gem is there, covered by the dust of mortality, awaiting the awakening of each individual, which shall cause him to stoop in humble gratitude when at last his "open eye" catches sight of its dazzling purity, and examines it to see what the new treasure may mean for him.
