Jesus' parable of the talents points to a fact in Christian Science which greatly blesses those who give proper heed to it. It is this: that every department of our experience, as it now seems humanly to be, is capable of improvement by means wide open to us through this Science.
Without attempting to say all that was in the Master's thought as he spoke the words of the parable, we can see unmistakably certain things that were there. He was aware of the nature of God, infinite good, and of the nature of man, of every man, as the perfect and unlimited expression of this good. At the same time, he observed with understandable compassion how unmindful those about him were of these facts. They were like heirs to a great estate who had not yet learned of it and who were consequently living in poverty. In this parable he was obviously seeking to alert mankind —his contemporaries and all who were to follow, including ourselves—to the wealth which is really ours.
He undoubtedly saw that the one thing that can keep us from the glad consciousness and experience of this wealth is disbelief in it—failure to apprehend it in its true nature. Hence we have his strong words for the one who was indulging this state of thought— the servant who had received one talent and done nothing with it. Jesus represents the lord of the servants as saying to him (Matt. 25:26), "Thou wicked and slothful servant."
