Article November 7, 1925 Issue

All in God

MILDRED G. HACKNEY

Through the endeavor to put into practice the truths we glean from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, these books become more and more understandable to us. Oftentimes, it is not until we have become thoroughly familiar with different passages of these writings, dear to the heart of every student of Christian Science, and have put their teachings to the test of demonstration, that the light of understanding dawns upon our thought.

The faithful study of the Bible Lessons, or Lesson-Sermons, published in the Christian Science Quarterly and read in The Mother Church and its branches every Sunday, helps to bring about this unfoldment in consciousness. By means of these Bible Lessons we are continually reminded of the experiences of the beloved characters of the Bible. We learn, too, how we can make these experiences helpful in our own lives.

To one who has not yet had the privilege of proving that God, Spirit, alone is the source of the supply of earthly needs, the words of Abram to the king of Sodom, and the consequent reward for the honesty, unselfishness, and integrity of thought expressed by the former, as recorded in the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters of Genesis, might not be fully comprehended. Abram refused to take "from a thread even to a shoelatchet" from one who seemed to have greater possessions than he, preferring to look to God alone for his supply, and saying, "lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich." Therefore Abram did not lack; and because of his fidelity to divine Principle, he received the promise of the Lord that He would be his "shield, and ... exceeding great reward." The same day the Lord made a covenant with him, saying, "Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates."

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