Article October 6, 1917 Issue

"What Is Money?"

Mrs. Eddy called the fund which Christian Scientists freely gave to build The Mother extension in Boston in 1906 "two millions of love currency" (Miscellany, p. 14).

Jesus, when viewing the rich men offering their gifts, said of the widow who threw "two mites" into the treasury of the temple at Jerusalem, "Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than their all" (Luke 21:3).

The widow of Judea and the Christian Scientists of 1906 grasped a high concept of Love as ever-current, they conceived the commodity used by men for their medium of exchange as being a symbol of the all-currency of love and they expressed this concept in the highest terms of service to God and to their fellow man.

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