Article February 8, 1930 Issue

Vessels Filled

HARRIETTE S. FROST

The Old Testament records many instances of healing, the fruit of the same spiritual thinking which is to-day scientifically demonstrated in Christian Science. If we look below the surface to the true significance of these healings, we shall find practical help in the solving of present-day problems.

Such help is to be found in the experience of the widow who applied to Elisha, "the man of God," to aid her in her seemingly dire need. Does not the widow's action typify the individual appeal to Christian Science in the solving of the problem of supply? This woman of the East, bereft of husband, her two sons about to become bondmen through the insistent belief of lack, was called upon to prove through spiritual thinking that she need not, because of false belief, submit to a wholly unreal condition. In spite of fear the supply was even then present, as following events proved. Her need was that through receptivity to Truth she should awaken from the dream of material sense to see supply manifested.

Faith in God on the part of one who needs to be healed is oftentimes the first necessity in healing. The widow woman acknowledged her established confidence in God when she said of her husband, "Thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord."

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