Article January 5, 1899 Issue

Object Lessons

BY B. S.

Who does not see in the innumerable objects around us some lesson both interesting and profitable? And a still deeper import it has for us when we come into (if but a little) of the understanding of Christian Science, and learn that what we see about us are types and figures of the real, and that just so far as our spiritual eyes are opened can we discern the true and eternal. A great, if not the greater, part of Jesus' teaching was through object lessons which emphasized the Truth he taught, thus bringing it to the comprehension of his hearers.

A thought came to me through a simple remark about a worm-eaten pear. I had been watching my sister preparing fruit for future use, when in picking up a worm-eaten pear she said, "When this gets into the fruit, it falls of itself." This started a train of thought in my mind. Falls of its own volition, and that because of a foreign element entering in,—the parent tree did not cast it off, had nothing to do with the error or its results.

Let the foreign element of self, material motives, aims, etc., once take seeming possession of our minds, we separate ourselves from the consciousness of Light, cause our own darkness and its results. Abiding in Principle, we grow and become fitted for our work in the world of lifting humanity out of the darkness and discords of a belief of material existence into the knowledge of oneness with the great unchanging Principle, our Father-Mother God, and proving through this spiritual understanding and through demonstration the consequent falsity of an existence apart from God, the One All. And as we grow in understanding, we do have the proofs.

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