"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." What a thought-arresting statement! When we contemplate this statement of the Master in connection with our own experience, we must admit that we give our thought, and time, and money to whatever we consider valuable. It is a challenge, therefore, more carefully to examine our thinking to determine if that which we are holding as valuable has real merit.
Everyone values health, peace, security, prosperity, and happiness. The world thinks of these qualities as emanating from matter. Christian Science reveals that all these forms of good are, in reality, wholly spiritual, and not to be found in matter. This practical Science shows us the way to realize the ever-presence of spiritual good. It shows us that an understanding of Truth brings health, peace, and abundance into human experience, as more and more individuals learn that Christian Science is the truth. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her book. "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 232): "Metaphysical healing, or Christian Science, is a demand of the times. Every man and every woman would desire and demand it, if he and she knew its infinite value and firm basis."
It is often difficult for some of us who have accepted Christian Science to understand how others fail to see that it is the priceless treasure which they really desire. In some cases their disinterest may be attributed to the fear that the acceptance of Christian Science would require the giving up of something cherished by them, something which gives them pleasure. With what joy can those who have found the way in Christian Science assure their friends that there is everything to gain and nothing to lose from its study! Spiritual joy so far transcends the human concept of pleasure that, once experienced and understood, even in a limited degree, it cannot be lost.
