IN "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we find this statement (p. 518): "Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud."
One spring, just as the peach trees were coming into bloom, this truth was indelibly impressed upon the thought of a student of Christian Science. She had just received a telegram from a distant state, saying that her sister had been taken to the hospital in a serious condition. The message read, "Come at once." Her father, who was not a Christian Scientist and was always filled with anxiety for the members of his family, was disconsolate. So this student knew that in order to help all concerned she must keep her thought free from every false suggestion. While packing for the trip she held to the spiritual truth about God and man, His immortal idea.
Then, awaiting her father's arrival from the office, she sat at an open window overlooking the garden, where several large Elberta peach trees were growing. As she drank in the beauty, joy, and promise of the lovely buds, she thought with regret: "How very beautiful the blossoms will be next week, and we shall not be here to enjoy them! Before our return the flowering season will be over." Instantly the reference quoted above came to her: "Love giveth to the least spiritual idea might, immortality, and goodness, which shine through all as the blossom shines through the bud."
