Article February 3, 1923 Issue

What Do We Lack?

LOUIS A. GREGORY

WE were near the middle of the alkali desert in western Utah, and it appeared that we should have to stay there for some time, for the ring-gear of our car was stripped. The nearest human habitation was a small mining town forty miles ahead. Our party consisted of my wife, our three small children, a nursemaid, and myself. There was no food, water, shelter,—no supply of any kind at hand,—other than the small amount we carried with us.

Earlier in the day I had been thinking that, although we seemed to be isolated from most of the things we were accustomed to, every provision of divine Love was at hand. There came to thought a sentence from an article published several years ago in The Christian Science Journal: "If a man were drowning in mid-ocean with apparently no human help at hand, there is a law of God which, when rightly appealed to, would bring about his rescue." When the mishap arose, these truths were repeated and discussed; and all of us agreed that now was the time for us to realize and prove them. We were helped also by the thought that the all-wisdom of infinite Mind included a remedy for every need, and that we, as children of God, divine Mind, could immediately realize and apply the remedy.

I am not a mechanic, and knew little about the mechanism of the car I was driving, so that it was a clear demonstration of the ever-presence of Mind that guided me, enabling me to adjust the gears so that I could drive the heavily loaded machine to the mining camp. We still had our mental work to do when we got to the camp, for the one small garage there had none of the repair supplies we needed; and it would have taken several days, maybe several weeks, to have received them on order. There was but one car in the camp of the same make as our own, and most of its gears had been taken out more than a year before at an abandoned mine back in the mountains. It seemed such a forlorn hope that we should find the gear which would be serviceable or fit our car, that it was with much difficulty I induced the garage owner to take me to the mine. We found the gear promptly, however, and it fitted exactly; so we were on our way again in a few hours.

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