Signs of coming spring had directed the thoughts of three Christian Scientists toward that joyous season. Happy memories of sunlit days filled their thoughts, and descriptions of flower-filled meadows and sweet-scented hedgerows were gaily exchanged. Then came the words of a hitherto silent listener, whose home lay far back on the sunless slopes of the canyon district, "Oh, there are no spring flowers in the cold valley."
No spring flowers! Who would choose to dwell in such a region? Yet, figuratively speaking, how many, unaware of the sunlit uplands of Spirit, dwell in a valley of unproductive thinking and mental gloom, filled with corroding regrets of a yesterday which never was real, viewing the problematical catastrophes of a tomorrow which never comes! Who would not strive to rise to the sunny uplands of spiritual thinking, radiant with the glowing flowers of joy and demonstration, knowing that these are available everywhere?
The valley of depression may at some time be known to each one of us; so, too, the mists of false beliefs, with which mortal mind would shut out the life-giving sunshine of Truth. When it becomes apparent that God is All, and that there cannot be anything outside of His allness, the blinding beliefs and the so-called mortal mind which formulated them are alike seen to be impotent illusion. This so-called mind claims that man is material, dwelling in and dependent upon a material universe. Human history records the chaos which has resulted from this mistaken concept of existence as material, and exposes the lack of Principle or intelligence in this pseudo mind. Since Principle is infinite divine intelligence, mortal mind, claiming the absence of divine Mind, admits its own nonentity. Thus the self-destruction of erroneous material sense is assured, and the revelation gained that the only Mind is God. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 587) Mary Baker Eddy defines God, in part, as "the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal."
