Article April 21, 1923 Issue

Demonstrating Over Lack

MILAS OSWALD HUTTER

If there is one thing the unenlightened human mind seems to desire more than anything else, it is money. Hence, some in financial difficulty, confusing Christian Science with the pseudo-mental sciences now prevalent, seek the services of a Christian Science practitioner, firmly believing that he will demonstrate a lot of money for them, and thus place them quickly in a condition of mental ease and physical comfort. Mrs. Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 456), in speaking of the impossibility of working from the basis of matter, goes on to say, "Truth does the work, and you must both understand and abide by the divine Principle of your demonstration."

"Truth does the work,"—so Mrs. Eddy definitely states; and therefore the Christian Science practitioner immediately knows that what is needed in the case is not a lot of money, but more of the truth. To attempt to demonstrate a lot of money would be to make matter the basis of practice, and thus to depart from the "divine Principle of your demonstration." It may not sound very intelligible to one in financial stress to be told that what he most needs is not money but more of the truth; nevertheless, if one reasons from a spiritually metaphysical standpoint, hence with divine intelligence, it can readily be seen that this is true.

Human activity is dependent upon thinking. Surely, then, the quality of the thinking must decide the harmony of the activity. This being the fact, the moment one turns to matter as the basis from which to derive his thoughts, that moment does he begin to limit his supply, for matter has no intelligence. Matter does not think; it has no ideas to give. When it is understood that what is commonly called matter is but the supposititious visible expression of erring human thought, it is obvious that the material thinker is simply using his time and mentality to objectify materially his own and others false mental images. This is stagnation, not progression. At most, he can never even seem to reproduce anything beyond the range of unstable, finite, unsatisfying, human thought. A change in any condition brought about through self-mesmerism, or human will-power, must always lack the satisfying sense of peace and security accompanying a result brought into human experience through the realization and application of Truth.

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