Article April 9, 1932 Issue

[Written Especially for Children]

"Hide" and "Seek"

JEAN SAUNDERS SCOTT

THERE is, perhaps, no game more popular among children than hide and seek. How joyous it is to think quickly of places in which to hide, and how difficult not to laugh when the seeker comes quite close to us and has to go away again without finding our hiding place because we have hidden so well!

Now these words "hide" and "seek" are frequently used in the Bible, and they can be used in the study of Christian Science. So perhaps the game will serve as a helpful illustration of "hiding" and "seeking" in their higher meanings. For when we are able to hide in God, we shall be able to recall many times when error tried to do the seeking, and we were able to laugh joyously because we were so well hidden in the truth that error could not find us.

In the book of Psalms we read, "Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me." What do we need to hide from? Only from wrong thinking. So there is really never anything to be afraid of. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says (p. 86), "Mortal mind sees what it believes as certainly as it believes what it sees." This, then, the false believing of mortal mind, is what we must hide from; and we accomplish it by putting the truth in the place of the error in our thoughts.

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