Editorial January 30, 1943 Issue

The Lesson of the Lily Pool

Paul Stark Seeley

In a garden was a lily pool fed by a spring. Among the lily pads were goldfish. One hot summer day the garden's owner found the lilies' leaves were curling, and the goldfish were languishing. What was the trouble? Soon he discovered that the little spring had dried up. No fresh water was coming into the pool. Quickly a supply of clean, fresh water was provided from another source; the goldfish revived, and the lilies resumed their normal beauty. What made the change? Fresh water, a continuous stream. The lilies and the little goldfish demanded it. Love supplied it.

Sometimes Christian Scientists begin mentally to wither, to lose their charm and sweetness, to droop with fatigue, to become irritable, critical, and unkind, to lose their spiritual vitality and alertness. Why? They are not letting into their consciousness the streams of constantly refreshing thoughts and ideas that God, the only Mind, has provided for them. They have let themselves be cut off from the waters of Life. Their thinking has become stale and stagnant. The joy, the spontaneity, and the loveliness of life seem gone, and often they wonder why.

Christian Science shows the individual that the wellsprings of life, joy, inspiration, and newness are within infinite Mind, reflected in man's God-constituted consciousness. How can he bring these vital, refreshing currents into his daily life? By systematic study of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and through earnest, understanding prayer, whereby he applies the ideas his study acquaints him with. It is as simple as that. God's will is for His every individual idea continuously to express the freshness, joy, and spontaneity of everlasting Life and Love. What seems to drag, to resist the efforts of the individual to let the inspiring Mind of Christ be in him, is the one evil, godless mortal mind. It is not the real selfhood or consciousness of you or me. Let us not accept it as such, or believe its suggestions to be our thinking.

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