Article December 24, 1910 Issue

DAILY SUPPLIES

ERNEST W. DAVIS.

I remember well, when we first began to receive copies of the Journal, the Sentinel, and later the Monitor, how jealously they were guarded and filed away to be reread. With the constant coming of new copies, however, and our study of the Lesson-Sermon, there seemed to be no time to read the back numbers again, and at last, driven to it by the rapid accumulation of the various publications, we were compelled to give them away to make room for later ones. Before parting with them, however, we would run them through and lay to one side those in which were articles that seemed to fit our case especially, and many times we would clip out some article and place it in our scrap-book. Then, because the publication was mutilated, we would throw it into the waste-basked, and by so doing deprive some one else of help which might have been received by the reading of that particular copy.

Back of the impulse to save and hoard those copies was fear,—human fear of lack of supply; a sense of limitation, and distrust of God and of His ability to meet our needs. But later we began to see that God, good, is infinite, that truth is eternal; hence man, being the idea of God, must bring out throughout eternity the infinitude of good. We, as Christian Scientists, are receiving, more and more each day, as we grow in the understanding of God, the substance of Spirit. And we shall continue to receive, in increasingly greater degree, as our capacities for assimilation and receptivity are enlarged by giving. Should we not, then, resolve ourselves into aids to the distributing committees, and send our back numbers of the Christian Science publications to this department, which is so important a part of the church work? Let us go even farther, and if in looking about us we should discover some brother or sister who is struggling with error in the form of limitation, and really trying to overcome it, although confronted by seemingly unsurmountable obstacles, we may encourage him and perhaps lay low some mountain of fear and exalt some valley of discouragement by making it possible for the Sentinel or Journal or Monitor to visit him regularly throughout the year.

Our Christian Science Publishing Society is doing a grand work through its publications, and every copy that is sent out into the world carries "healing in its wings;" each article is a flash of light which shall accomplish the work whereunto it is sent. Mrs. Eddy tells us there are "millions of unprejudiced minds, simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert" (Science and Health, p. 570), who are "waiting and watching" for this acquaintance with and understanding of our Father-Mother God which we as Christian Scientists have and are receiving through the life and labors of our beloved Leader. To experience the gratitude which must ensue from an acquaintance with her works, and the pure, purposeful, and unselfish manner of living which made it possible for this truth to be expressed through her, is in itself a taste of heaven.

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