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The Banqueting House
PLENTEOUSNESS is a divine idea. Bounty is infinite.
Continuous refreshment in the banqueting house of Spirit cannot diminish supply nor deprive another of anything. The multiplication of Mind's ideas is perpetually operating without fluctuation or deviation, without depletion of quantity and without variation in quality. Mortal sense is always face to face with lack in various phases. The seeking for material plenty is one of the most profound, yet unsatisfactory problems to which mankind applies itself. The urge to secure is coupled with the fear of dispossession. The twain are concomitant with the mortal thinking of all peoples and of all generations, but it is a travesty on the reality that whenever we enjoy the use of anything, this enjoyment is accompanied by the fear that an evil force will arise to snatch it from our grasp.
Christian Science maintains that infinity cannot be finite, that depletion is not a law, and that the spiritual man, the real man, does not lack. On the contrary, Christian Science demonstrates that multiplication and not subtraction is everywhere evident when physical reasoning is discarded. Biblical history is replete with confirmatory evidence of the truth of scientific reasoning. All will remember the narrative of manna in the wilderness and of water from the rock. When Elijah was commanded to dwell with the widow of Zarephath, the meal did not diminish, neither did the cruse of oil fail. The fourth chapter of II Kings bears further testimony to the multiplying of oil, in this case to enable a woman to pay her creditors, and of the feeding of one hundred men by Elisha with twenty loaves of barley and full ears of corn. "And he [Elisha] said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof. So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord."
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March 5, 1921 issue
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The Banqueting House
PERCY PHILLIP VYLE
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The Perfection of Creation
OLIVER BOWLES
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"Know thyself"
HELEN M. DAGGETT
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Authority
ALICE M. BOTTUM
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Knowing
MOLLIE A. HOWE
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"The ditch of nonsense"
Frederick Dixon
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We Are All Beginners
Gustavus S. Paine
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I am unspeakably grateful for the many blessings received...
Lancelot George Whitehead
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After suffering for several years from neuritis, for which...
Pearl Geneva Snyder
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I wish to try to express some of the gratitude I feel for...
Kate Hawthorne
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It gives me great pleasure to be able to express my...
Erle Whitney with contributions from Emma M. Lambert
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Thinking over a recent Lesson-Sermon, one sentence...
Ella W. Walstrom
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It is with much gratitude that I give my testimony of the...
Follette Brotherton
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In the fall of 1914 I was instantaneously healed of gallstones...
Ernest L. Bailey
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In the summer of 1902 Christian Science healed me, in...
Regina C. Yount
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from James L. Gordon, Oskar Seitz, Oliver M. Fisher, Norman Maclean
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Notices
with contributions from Charles E. Jarvis