Article January 23, 1904 Issue

Seeking and Finding

LUCY HOLTZCLAW.

A Man who had spent his life studying the American Indian, his history, customs, etc., visited a resort among the mountains whose site was once the home of the Cherokees. The first morning of his stay, he took a walk over ground that for the past twenty years had been visited by hundereds of people, and his keen eye picked out from the underbrush and stones a fine specimen of an Indian arrow-head. Without special search, he found what he was ever seeking,—knowledge of the Indian,—where untrained eyes had seen nothing.

Jesus plainly tells us what to seek: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." The kingdom of heaven, he says, is within you, it is the true consciousness, and the Christian Scientist who is progressing is seeking, not so much for results as for cause, for the unfolding of the true idea of God and man and the universe. Christ said, "An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign," and the reward received for such seeking is far from the health and peace which follow the seeking of holiness.

Seeking in Christian Science means that we are searching after the Principle by which the healing work is done, the wholeness that comes as a natural consequence of knowing God. If one wishes merely to be healed of a troublesome disease, and then lets the matter drop as if that were sufficient, he is like the nine who were healed but returned not to follow Christ, and such cannot hope to progress in Christian Science until ready to acknowledge the healing as the result of understanding God. Beginning the study thus, seeking the kingdom of harmony, harmonious thoughts are soon made manifest and we find that some long-standing disease disappears, whether it be mental or physical. When our hearts are filled with truth and love, as our beloved Leader admonishes us they should be, and when we seek only good, we can find only peace, and many evidences of love come where mortal thought can find nought but sin, disease, or death. Thus the real healing work of Christian Science is revealed as a necessary outcome of love to God and man.

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