Article April 2, 1910 Issue

A LESSON IN HOUSEKEEPING

ELIZABETH EARL JONES.

We learn in Christian Science that man is the reflection of God, and all that he is and all that he has, in reality, he has by virtue of spiritual reflection of the one infinite source of being. It is therefore with sweetest comfort and confidence that we read the Master's declaration: "Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." It is not the need, then, but the supply, "what things ye have need of," that divine Love knows, is ever knowing about His idea, even before we ask Him; therefore our labors are lightened and our highest hopes assured, because God is already knowing, declaring, and expressing through man and the universe all the good which we long to know and think and be. The above verse from Matthew's Gospel has often come as a treatment, with healing in its wings, to the writer, and pushed back the seeming veil of sense, fear, doubt, and materiality which would obscure and substitute the divine knowing with false beliefs about life and its supplies.

At one time, some years ago, a student of Christian Science became greatly distressed over the discordant condition of her usually happy home. Everything seemed to be going wrong, the members of the family were all cross and dissatisfied, and, search as she would, it seemed impossible to locate and dispel the intruding error which was causing so much unhappiness. After praying for divine guidance, the above words of the apostle evangelist came to mind, at once an instruction and a rebuke. Because man is the reflection of God, he must seek to know not the need, but the supply; not the lie, but the truth about any situation or any thing with which he or his patients may have to do. When the thing we have need of is discerned according to Science, the sense of lack, by whatever name we may call it, is seen for what it is, and then for what it is not, and it quickly disappears.

With the declaration, "God knows the thing I have need of, the quality and fact that seem to be lacking, therefore I, as His child, also know it," at once the answer came as clearly as if a voice were speaking: "The thing needed in your home and in your consciousness to bring out harmony is system." System! why, that was a quality which the student had never seemed to possess, and to the need of which she had never before awakened. Reviewing the situation mentally, she could now see that all the discord was directly traceable to a lack of system. It was a revelation!

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