Editorial December 12, 1931 Issue

Abundant Supply

Violet Ker Seymer

Jesus fed the hungry multitude in the wilderness, where, to human sense, food could not be obtained. He proved the omnipresence of supply. These people, putting their spiritual needs first, had trustingly followed the Master in order to listen to the words of Truth; and the fact that they gave precedence to their spiritual needs is noteworthy. It is as though the spiritually hungry multitude had known that "man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." The fact that God, Life, sustains every manifestation of the one Life, is intensely reassuring.

On page 17 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy interprets the clause in the Lord's Prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread," as "Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections." The affections of mankind are famished because, broadly speaking, individuals concentrate their attention upon temporal pursuits and starve their higher nature. By many, for instance, it might be thought sheer waste of valuable time to study sacred literature. While according due and practical consideration to work and emolument, Christian Science nevertheless urges giving first place to the contemplation and cultivation of our highest need, the need of spirituality. Christian Science opens the way for substantial, true thinking, and rewards it.

Provided thought is reaching out for spiritual inspiration and transformation and is reaping the true sense of substance and supply, all human needs can be abundantly cared for without intermission. Christian Science is not a fairweather religion; it is our stand-by in times of stress. It is not upon the human need, however, but upon the supply of right ideas and qualities that thought should dwell. As mental penury gives way to spiritual enrichment, the haunting phantoms of material poverty and other lack withdraw before the angels of His presence.

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