Article October 27, 1917 Issue

Spiritual Food

MINNIE S. BELL

So long as mortals believe in a material body, it necessarily follows that material food will be needed by them; but when through the study of metaphysics we learn that Life is God, Spirit, then we begin to look to other sources than matter for our supply, our daily bread.

As the Master sat by Jacob's well, hungry, thirsty, and weary, he found the sustenance he needed by giving out the truth to the woman who had come there to draw water. When his disciples returned from their search for material food, they found that their Master's need had been supplied,—his hunger and weariness were gone. Their thought was still too material, however, to grasp reality, to discern that Truth is able to supply every need of man, and so they did not understand Jesus when he said, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of," but said one to another, "Hath any man brought him aught to eat?"

In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy says, "The one important interpretation of Scripture is the spiritual" (p. 320), and only such interpretation will give us the food we need. Suppose one were to give a starving man a basketful of Brazil nuts, and he did not know that the hard shell hid the food which he was needing; we would not help him unless we showed him that by breaking the shell he could get at the kernel. If we read the Bible simply as the history of certain tribes of people, it can do nothing for us in the way of salvation from sin, disease, and death. As our Leader says on page 241 of our textbook, "Take away the spiritual signification of Scripture, and that compilation can do no more for mortals than can moonbeams to melt a river of ice."

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