Article July 15, 1933 Issue

"Which God hath prepared"

MAUDE H. LACY

The attention of the world is focused at present on what is termed the economic problem of supply and distribution. To provide for its material needs has ever been one of the absorbing tasks of mankind; and through the ages men have believed that this task must be accomplished through toil, struggle, and conflict with opposing forces. Always there have seemed to be inequalities between supply and demand, and notwithstanding great achievement in all lines of human endeavor little lasting progress seems to have been made toward an intelligent mastery of the problem of equitable supply and distribution. Throughout history, down to the present time, there have been recurring times of famine. Human systems, while ameliorating the consequences, have found no remedy for these conditions, because fundamentally false concepts have produced them. Today it is becoming more and more clear to thoughtful people that the remedy for these conditions must be sought not in human ways and means, but in a better understanding of divine or spiritual law.

To spiritually enlightened thought this remedy has always been at hand. The Scriptures record the revelation of God's presence and the operation of His law through the inspired vision of those who were spiritually-minded enough to receive it. In the first chapter of Genesis we read that to man created in the image and likeness of God dominion over all the earth was given; that is, the right to utilize all the provision of divine, creative intelligence was freely bestowed on him. According to spiritual revelation, then, God's children do not have to toil and struggle to obtain that which is their rightful inheritance. The curse, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," was not pronounced on God's man, but upon the false sense of man, the offspring of material sense. Yet, strangely enough, the misconception has prevailed and the true sense of man has been obscured.

Throughout the Scriptures, by precept and recorded proof, the provision of the creator for His creation is consistently declared. Whence came the manna which fed the Israelites in the wilderness, or the water which flowed from the rock? What was the source of the oil which filled the widow's vessels or the meal which supplied the need of the woman of Zarephath? Is it not plain that these and many similar manifestations were the results of a law understood and utilized by the enlightened spiritual leaders of Israel?

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