Article August 26, 1933 Issue

Supply

[Written Especially for Young People]

FLORA A. WATERBURY

Young people are often heard to say that they would like to take part in this or that school activity but that they have not the necessary means. And when on that account a student is deprived of enjoying certain activities of school life, he may be disappointed and feel himself deprived of something that belongs to him.

Our beloved Leader had a normal girlhood, and Dr. Lyman P. Powell, in his book entitled "Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait," has given to the second chapter in the book the title "A Rich Girlhood." As we follow her life-story through this chapter we find that, while she ranked high as a student, she was interested in social gatherings, made visits to other towns, and helped her mother to entertain relatives and friends. We are also told, however, that at one time she could not join a writing class because she did not have the necessary funds. So Mrs. Eddy as a schoolgirl also had the question of supply to think about.

But many years later, as she commenced to write "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she began to understand, through turning to God in the midst of many financial struggles and trials, that God, Spirit, not matter, was her source of supply; and so she wrote in her textbook this statement (p. 468): "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay." In Christian Science we understand that money, as matter, is not real substance and can but symbolize the true idea of supply. Many times the seeming lack or even an abundance of money causes discord, and the only power which money seems to have as supply is what mortal mind gives it. So in turning again to the definition of substance we read that "Truth, Life, and Love are substance." In order, therefore, to understand what true supply is one must get a better understanding of God as Life, Truth, and Love.

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