On a radio program recently the speaker said that at one time an oil company, after making a survey of a certain area in Africa, drilled for oil but found none. The attempt to find oil was given up, and the equipment was removed. Later on another company drilled in the same area and struck oil. The explanation of the difference in the two experiences was given by one of the engineers, who said that the first company did not go deep enough.
They did not go deep enough. How applicable this thought is to all human endeavor! How often we skim only the surface of some great good, some great dynamic truth; then, because of a difficulty of one kind or another, we give up and so fail to find the solution of the problem with which we have been struggling.
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 129), "We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things." And in a message to The Mother Church, entitled "Christian Science versus Pantheism," she tells us (pp. 11,12): "The grand realism that man is the true image of God, not fallen or inverted, is demonstrated by Christian Science. And because Christ's dear demand, 'Be ye therefore perfect,' is valid, it will be found possible to fulfil it."
