Article February 6, 1937 Issue

Supply—A Revelation

MADELINE T. FOOTE

Supply —what is it? Many of us will be quick to answer, for there is no question as to the apparent need for it in daily experience. But continued lack of it, unrewarded efforts to obtain it, may be the result of our having been led, in the pursuit of supply, far from the right path. It may be advisable, therefore, to examine our thinking, for, as we learn in Christian Science, it is thought we have to deal with in the solving of problems.

Have we thought of supply as something apart from us as individuals, as something almost beyond our grasp? Have we thought of it as something for which we must struggle in order to obtain barely enough to meet our just debts and exist? Possibly we have thought of supply as a fluctuating, illusive shadow. At best, the material view of supply involves chance, competition, limitation, uncertainty, delay, and, in many cases, lack of opportunity.

Let us consider the spiritual opposite—the substance of immortal Mind. In I Corinthians we read: "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit." Here we find definite assurance of supply—supply which, because of its nature, cannot be borrowed, hoarded, loaned, confined, or limited. Supply is the revelation of Truth. Someone may say: "But that is not what I need. I need tangible things." The Christian Scientist agrees that there is an apparent need of visible things. But has not the world learned that the very things in which it trusts, vanish away—that they are not really substantial after all?

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