Article April 14, 1934 Issue

"God requireth that which is past"

[Written Especially for young People]

HELENE M. HAUSER

A sunday school student approached her teacher and asked to be shown how to solve a problem. It seemed that the entire office force where she was employed had received a salary reduction of ten per cent a few weeks previously, and had been informed that on the following pay day there was to be a similar decrease. Since the young girl was helping to support her family, the reduction in income seemed a big problem, and consequently she was depressed and worried.

As the first step in solving this problem, the girl was told not to accept as real any suggestion of reduction in her true income, since God's love is ever pouring forth abundantly, and He has never in any way limited or reduced its flow. The next step was to hold fast to the scientific fact that all of God's ideas are ever employed in the glorious activity of reflecting Him. In this ceaseless activity there is no retrogression or standstill, since He is eternal and self-existent Life, and therefore there is no possibility of His reducing or withholding His supply of good from any one of His children.

The young girl readily saw this, especially in connection with the announced reduction; but it was not so clear to her how the truth could be applied to the reduction already received. She was told that the same truth applied to that angle of the problem, since with God there is no past or future. In support of this the fifteenth verse of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes was quoted: "That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past." This verse shows clearly that God is available in all ways, not only in regard to the present and the future, but also in regard to the past, since time is only a human belief. The young student then exclaimed, "I see now that I must not accept the belief that real supply has ever been or can ever be curtailed in any way; and I shall hold to this, for in Truth no reduction has ever been made."

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