Article February 22, 1913 Issue

INEXHAUSTIBLE SUPPLY

CARL HORTON PIERCE.

Because of our past education and environment we have been accustomed to think of money as the basis of our supply, and the human mind insists that it is; whereas supply is found in the intelligence which enables us to solve the problems that confront us. A situation which seems insurmountable to the business man or housewife, is not insurmountable at all when one comes to analyze it in the light of Christian Science.

A little intelligent discussion; a willingness to yield one's will to the divine; a desire to take the step nearest at hand instead of trying to reach the top rung of the ladder before taking the lowest one; a meekness and gratitude for the privilege of solving the problem, rather than indignation because one has it to solve, and a righteous activity in proceeding to the solution,—these factors not only bring about satisfactory demonstrations, but they make it apparent that spiritual intelligence and not money is the means by which the answer has been obtained. Money cannot give the solution of our difficulties, but the reflection of intelligence, when brought into operation through unswerving faith and application, not only aids one to have the money at hand wherewith to meet his obligations, but it goes still farther by giving one those incidentals of harmonious life experience which mankind is wont to admit that money cannot buy.

This consciousness of supply as the manifestation of intelligence, obtained and retained, brings into one's experience more and more of affluence of thought and abundance of supply, so that not only one's own but the world's great need is met. For example, let us say that out of tribulation and suffering one has gleaned even a meager glimpse of that compassion which actuated Christ Jesus. From this well-spring of tenderness he is able to supply the needs of many others. Since "Love is reflected in love" (Science and Health, p. 17), the supply necessarily returns to the sender in whatever way will best meet his need. Certainly this is the experience of every earnest giver of good, every follower who is laboring in the vineyard, every faithful steward. In olden days we may not have been able to grasp the justice in Jesus' statement, "Whosoever hath, to him shall be given;" but in the light of Science we understand that every man "has" because intelligence is infinite here and now, is waiting always to be applied, and in reality is always an inseparable integer of man's spiritual consciousness. Therefore he who realizes that man has, "to him shall be given" in proportion to his exercise of this universally bestowed "talent."

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