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Eye on the world: Feeding humanity
In “Worst forms of famine see decline” The Christian Science Monitor reports that while hunger and smaller famines still remain a challenge in areas suffering from war and repression, “calamitous” famines (more than one million deaths) have been eliminated and “great” famines (more than 100,000 deaths) are on the decline. With modern media coverage, a more informed international community intervenes to thwart larger-scale neglect of a hungry population. “It is difficult for a famine to escalate unnoticed in a globalized society,” writes the Monitor. As a result, experts anticipate that with continued progress in global awareness and good governance, famine of any volume could soon be found only in history books.
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
Jesus walked on the waves, fed the multitude, healed the sick, and raised the dead in direct opposition to material laws. His acts were the demonstration of Science, overcoming the false claims of material sense or law.
—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 273
Wholly apart from this mortal dream, this illusion and delusion of sense, Christian Science comes to reveal man as God’s image, His idea, coexistent with Him—God giving all and man having all that God gives.
—The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 5
Related articles from The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Prayer for people in the Horn of Africa”: “... no country or people can be outside the care and love of the ever-present Mind ‘who understands all things.’ Therefore it is possible to prove that there is no place for hunger, conflict, or lack to appear or to have existence.” And “... under God’s government there are only infinite, unlimited possibilities. Through our prayers we will be able to move mentally beyond the limits of materiality, whether this involves belief in lack of resources or human pity, which dwells on the mortal, hopeless sense of things. Instead, we uplift thought and hope by acknowledging the reality of God’s goodness and His inexhaustible provision for all.”
In “Prayer for All Mankind”: “It is natural for those who are awake to the healing power of God revealed in Christian Science to want the whole world to be blessed by it.” And “It is within our power to help meet humanity’s needs through the Christ, the true idea of God, as Jesus did. We too can pray to the divine Father of all, confident not only that He has already met those needs abundantly, but that the very knowing of this divine fact will open the way for multitudes to be satisfied in human experience.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.