Article July 11, 1959 Issue

"THAT WHICH SEEKETH TO SAVE"

HAROLD C. LEWIS

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy writes (pp. 149, 150): "Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance."

Our Leader does not say, "that which is able to save." She says, "that which seeketh to save." The manifestation of Love, or the Christ, is unceasingly reaching mankind in infinite tenderness and compassion. This ever-present and ever-active impartation of Love was likened by Christ Jesus to the shepherd who goes forth into the wilderness to seek the lost sheep and carries it home on his shoulders

Through the ages, the servants of the one true God have found that "that which seeketh to save" was with them and has delivered them in apparently hopeless situations. An example of this is the experience of the three Hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. King Nebuchadnezzar had ordered that, at the sound of certain music, all those assembled for the dedication of a golden idol which he had caused to be set up should fall down and worship it. To enforce this order, he had decreed that anyone who refused to do so should be cast into a fiery furnace.

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