Article November 25, 1939 Issue

Lack, or Abundance?

FAIRFAX SMYTH

BY the term "lack" is generally meant a lack or shortage of money, and therefore of the things that money will buy, such as shelter, clothing, food — in short, a lack of the material things that are necessary to one's comfort and wellbeing.

From a purely human point of view, lack or poverty, usually the result of unemployment, presents a problem that is difficult of solution; for to the human mind there is no certain method of obtaining employment when one is out of work, and hence no sure way of avoiding the unpleasant experience of poverty or want.

In dealing with this problem in Christian Science, one should clearly understand at the outset that the seeming cause of lack is the erroneous belief that matter is substance. Only as this erroneous belief is detected and destroyed, can the sense of lack be healed. On page 31 of "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy refers to "the fundamental error of faith in things material," and warns us that "this trust is the unseen sin, the unknown foe, — the heart's untamed desire which breaketh the divine commandments."

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