Finding treasure

Dorothy R. Bey

Scott loved adventure, and he liked to pretend. He and his brother Billy would pretend to be on an African safari, or in a spaceship on some important mission. Most of all, they liked to hunt treasure. They would spend a lot of time digging in the vacant field behind their house, taking turns burying little boxes of Mother's old jewelry and drawing treasure maps for each other. Trying to follow a treasure map was fun. Scott learned that to find the treasure he had to follow the clues on the map.

He learned about another kind of following too. In the Christian Science Sunday School he learned that many times Christ Jesus told his disciples to follow him. In the book of John in the Bible, Jesus said, "If any man serve me, let him follow me;...if any man serve me, him will my Father honour."^{John 12:26.}

Scott learned that whenever we want to be or do good— to help a friend or, even better, to help someone who isn't a friend—we are following Jesus. Turning to God by praying and keeping the Commandments are also ways of following him. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: "It is possible,— yea, it is the duty and privilege of every child, man, and woman,—to follow in some degree the example of the Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness."^{Science and Health, p. 37.}