Article August 29, 1925 Issue

Our Distribution Work

RICHARDS WOOLFENDEN

Our distribution work may be viewed in the fourfold aspect of purpose, object, motive, and result, There is a logical sequence in this arrangement which helps us to see the points of interest clearly, and to retain right impressions in regard to it. In the first place, the purpose of our distribution work may be briefly stated: it may be said to fulfill the law of abundance expressed in the lives of Christian Scientists. Every Christian Scientist has something to distribute. Every one carries with him a sense of abundance which enables him to minister to the needs of his fellow-men. Each one has something he can share with another.

The sense of abundance makes the work of distribution a helpful and a joyous task. Nowhere is the lesson of abundance more quickly learned; for in this work it is seen at once what ample provision has been made to meet the needs of men. In the periodicals founded and provided by our beloved Leader, we have a continual supply with which to carry on the good work. These include The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, the Heralds, and The Christian Science Monitor, a daily newspaper which is known and appreciated all around the world; also the Christian Science Quarterly, which contains the Lesson-Sermons. With these supplies coming to us at regular intervals, there is no fear of running short when the question of our brother's need comes up. This fact tends to encourage the timid or inexperienced worker, and to arouse him to a sense of his opportunity. It helps him to see that he can be of incalculable service to mankind.

And, truly, there is nothing the world awaits more eagerly to-day than this demonstration of its needs supplied. Everywhere the sense of lack hinders constructive enterprise. The worker and the capitalist together await the vision of means to an end, and the realization of adequate compensation for their outlay. Problems of health and housing, combined with happier surroundings, press on every hand, calling the attention of experts, requiring heavy drafts on public and private resources. Everywhere funds are declared to be inadequate to the work to be performed. When the problem of economic activity is handled under the law of abundance revealed in Christian Science, better results will follow. In the realization of this law will be found the expression of plenty everywhere; for therein is no lack, no limitation, but only the sense of sufficiency and of help at hand. So, in our work of distribution, the Christian Scientist knows there is a law of God in operation which reveals good, and to those who love God's law there is revealed the solution of every difficulty. He builds on this foundation, and cheerfully awaits the unfolding of his constructive work.

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