Article June 1, 1929 Issue

Income and Outgo

CUSHING SMITH

The problem of "making ends meet" is a common one, and many people turn to Christian Science for its solution, as many also approach the study of this Science for relief from bodily ills. The demonstrations and instructions of Jesus are as clear-cut and understandable in the one instance as in the other. He said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." This seeking is not complete until it leads the seeker to the understanding of God's rightness as infinite good, and as never changing in His beneficence.

Many a student of the Bible has endeavored to be obedient to the injunction to take no thought for one's life, what one shall eat and wherewithal one shall be clothed; but unless one has built this endeavor upon understanding rather than upon mere belief in God's ability to supply the "added" things, one's endeavors have often resulted in discouragement and in the mistaken assumption that there must be something obscure in the Master's instructions. This incomplete application of his rules is remedied when one correctly understands that God does not withhold anything good from His children, and that one need only know how truly to approach Him with the spiritual assurance which enabled Jesus to feed the multitudes, to be able to demonstrate God's never absent supply.

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?" Jesus' succinct parallel routs all doubts of God's care for His creatures; and Mrs. Eddy declares in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 3), "He who is immutably right will do right without being reminded of His province." To implore God for blessings may deepen the false assumption that He does not provide all good at all times; for should it be more necessary to implore God for good than to implore a human father who loves his offspring, to be kind to his child? All that is required for the promises to be made manifest, is obedience, trustfulness, and intelligent performance of our own part in seeking the kingdom first, last, and all the time.

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