Editorial February 1, 1958 Issue

WHERE IS OUR TREASURE?

Helen Wood Bauman

One's interest in life centers about one's treasures, but not necessarily about material possessions or preferred personalities. One's treasure may be intellectual knowledge, wide travel, business success. Or it may be the knowledge of God and of man in His image and the harmonizing power such knowledge bestows.

One knows what his treasure is by the degree of interest he entertains in it. Christ Jesus declared (Luke 12:34), "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Before he said this, he had counseled his disciples to give up the material pursuits which the world follows and to seek the kingdom of God. This would not deprive them of the necessities of human life. He assured them, "All these things shall be added unto you."

When our affections are placed upon matter and we rely upon it for satisfaction, we reap a fruitless reward in limitation of spiritual power. We lack interest in the unseen spiritual values, which the material senses do not and cannot perceive. If we permit the deceiving senses to dominate us, we lose sight of our unity with God. Then, if evil befalls us, we may find it difficult to demonstrate Christian Science, which declares God's supreme control of all existence.

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