Article November 10, 1934 Issue

Abundant Life

NATALIE G. FORCE

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is bringing to the world the fulfillment of Jesus' promise, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." It is furnishing to all who earnestly seek the truth a demonstrable knowledge of the Christ, Truth, that reveals this abundance as an ever present reality. God has never ceased to provide for the well-being of all His children; He has never ceased to pour out the riches of His love, and in the proportion that the Christ, referred to by Jesus, comes to the individual human consciousness, this abundance is realized, even in the midst of seeming lack.

In connection with Jesus' promise we must also accept his statement, "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." And in this statement is revealed the fundamental truth that man's being is in Mind, not matter, and that Spirit is the only substance and reality. All the failure, poverty, and lack in human experience originates in the delusion that man's existence is dependent upon the preservation of a physical body, and that his supply is limited to the amount of matter which he possesses.

The widespread fermentation of world thought known as financial depression has exposed the utter futility of dependence upon mere material acquisition, and is arousing men, as never before, to the realization that real substance is spiritual, and is attainable only through right thinking. Whether the evidence before the physical senses is material wealth or poverty, it is not the truth about man, for man's real substance is found in his at-one-ment with God; and his true income is the spiritual ideas which never cease to emanate from infinite Mind. Realizing this is laying up "treasures in heaven" to be utilized, not at some future period, but here and now.

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