A Painter of delightful word pictures is the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. In her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 329-332) we find such a picture in a rhapsody on the joys and beauties of the springtide. The Christian Scientist traces with the deepest interest and enjoyment his Leader's metaphors and similes, which invariably point some spiritual lesson.
For example, in her article "Voices of Spring" we find this most helpful paragraph (ibid., p. 330): "The alders bend over the streams to shake out their tresses in the water-mirrors; let mortals bow before the creator, and, looking through Love's transparency, behold man in God's own image and likeness, arranging in the beauty of holiness each budding thought." Then a little farther on she continues, "With each returning year, higher joys, holier aims, a purer peace and diviner energy, should freshen the fragrance of being."
Truly the return of the spring, heralded by the Eastertide, should bring to every heart a glad sense of renewed hope and courage, a conviction that, after all, life is, must be, deathless. No matter how cheerless and barren may have seemed some winter experience of a slow healing or a temporary failure to melt some icy grip of a deep sorrow, the message of Easter and spring is ever: "weeping may endure for a night" (Ps. 30:5), opportunities to know and prove the reality of joyous being are fresh with each dawn.
