Article November 26, 1932 Issue

"No variableness"

JACOB BARR WILES

ALL over the world today a tired, puzzled humanity is groping for a path which will lead it out of the maze of variable theories regarding health, supply, employment, human relations, and disturbed conditions into a haven of peace, into a state of individual opportunity which has ever been considered the utopia of mankind. In this search for a way out, countless plans have been suggested, numerous theories have been promulgated and many remedies tried, only to find that they are "reeds shaken by the wind," to quote Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 269). More and more the question is being asked, To what shall we turn?

Over half a century ago a gentle New England woman, Mary Baker Eddy, a brilliant, although humble scholar and a devout Christian, gave to the world her discovery, which points the way out of every human difficulty. "Man's extremity is God's opportunity." Truly here is the key to the solution of every problem facing humanity today. On page 326 of the above textbook of Christian Science, this divinely inspired writer makes a most significant statement, one which challenges attention, when she says, "All nature teaches God's love to man." Note that she does not say "for" but "to man." How may we learn this lesson that nature teaches us? Is it not by recognizing the fact that Love expresses, through Love's creation, an uninterrupted course of harmonious activity? Mrs. Eddy makes clear that a mortal, material sense of the universe and what is commonly called nature is vastly different from the real spiritual sense of creation; and she says (ibid., p. 276): "Nature and revelation inform us that like produces like."

In many instances those who are struggling with the problems facing them today are predicating their thinking upon what has been commonly accepted as a fact, namely, that supply, employment, health, and other desirable conditions are entirely dependent upon material factors or persons and governed by so-called material laws. The Apostle James must have realized the fallacy of this kind of thinking when he wrote: "Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."

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