Article April 29, 1939 Issue

Seeing Eyes

MARY L. ALLEN

Two friends sat at luncheon together, one a young woman, the other a little child. They had been spending the morning with each other. Because the woman thought that she was burdened by a discordant condition in her home, after ordering the luncheon she said, "Now I have to do some thinking, so we will not talk until it is served."

Presently the child exclaimed, "Isn't the color in those curtains pretty?" In an abstracted manner the answer came, "Yes, but you know we were not to talk." After a silence, the little voice spoke again, "Oh, see how those flowers peek in at the window!" Again the mechanical answer, "Yes, but you were not to talk." The waitress finally entered with a jug of cream which she placed upon the table. Looking at it the child burst forth, "Did you ever see anything in the whole world so pretty as that little blue pitcher?" The Christian Scientist was instantly healed of all thought of discord as she realized that the child, in her love of beauty, was seeing glimpses of good everywhere, while she was struggling to find God.

The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, our Leader, said in an address to Christian Scientists (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 132), "Divine Love hath opened the gate Beautiful to us, where we may see God and live, see God in good,—God all, one,—one Mind and that divine; where we may love our neighbor as ourselves, and bless our enemies."

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