Editorial July 10, 1943 Issue

Found—the Living Water

Paul Stark Seeley

Near the middle of the last century a missionary went to the New Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific. He made his home on the Isle of Aniwa. There he discovered that at certain seasons the rainfall was very light, and oftentimes there was much suffering among the natives for lack of water to drink.

He determined to dig a well. The natives said that he was insane, that water did not come from the earth, but from the sky. They refused to give him any aid. Alone, he set to work. Down through the soil and hard gravel the well was dug. Finally, the bottom of the hole became moist. He summoned the native chiefs about him, dug a little farther, and was rewarded with a flow of clear, fresh water. Never again has anyone had to go athirst on the Isle of Aniwa.

The incident illustrates the far reaching contribution made by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, to the human race. Her great thirst for the things of God led her to search for many years for the living water of spiritual Truth, the wellspring of reality provided by God for all men. Of the Master's work she has written, "He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 313). So it can be said of her. Patiently and persistently she dug beneath the material surface of thought and things and found the spiritual cause. On the surface of human consciousness she found the creed-limited thinking of orthodoxy, and the mystical theories of material medicine.

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