Article December 18, 1926 Issue

"They . . . were all filled"

VIOLET KER SEYMER

That which stands out most clearly in the narrative of the loaves and fishes is the fact that, in spite of the apparently big demand and small supply, the multitude, numbering "about five thousand men, beside women and children," received all that they needed; for we read in Luke that "they did eat, and were all filled." Had the multitude been a million times greater, Love's infinite supply could just as readily have been bestowed on one and all, according to their need. Perhaps some among the multitude waited, doubting and fearing whether and when their turn would come to be fed. Perhaps these same suggestions cause some to-day to wonder whether or when the healing, the regeneration for which they long, will be manifested. The answer to all such doubts and fears is that "they . . . were all filled."

On page 206 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says, "In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply." Every spiritual idea is included in God's consciousness, and every individual idea must be conscious of the bounty of infinite Mind.

It must be remembered that for days this multitude had followed Christ Jesus, eagerly listening to the spiritual truth he imparted. Probably they did not then know that their temporal need would also be supplied; but their thought was so uplifted that they followed him fearlessly into a "desert place." In Love's omnipresence, however, there is no "desert place," no place deserted by divine Love; and then and there every individual in that vast multitude was fed. Christ Jesus saw through and beyond the evidence of the physical senses: to him divine Mind and its ideas were always present and always inseparable, each idea being individually known and cared for by the all-wise creator.

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