Article November 25, 1939 Issue

"Rain ... in his season"

ELOISE PATTILLO HENDRICK

HOW often in everyday experience does apprehensive concern for the future trouble one, and how frequently this attitude prevails in spite of present sufficiency! Many are the ways and means which human thought has devised to ensure security or provision for future needs. But however admirable the intelligent foresight, thrift, and wisdom exercised in such planning, true security is found only through spiritual understanding of and obedience to the law of God.

In the teachings of Christian Science, numbers of students have discovered a sure and satisfying basis for security, and have been enabled to demonstrate in their individual experience the regularity and inexhaustibility of true supply. Calendars are unknown to God, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore, scientifically speaking, man, as God's own expression, cannot experience intermittent, periodic supply or find the Father's goodness to be less than infinite and unfailingly available. Man is inseparable from abundance, because he is inseparable from God, who is infinite good. Great gratitude and joy are felt by the many who have proved, in a measure, the truth of the words of Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 83) that immortal Mind, God, is "holding man forever in the rhythmic round of unfolding bliss, as a living witness to and perpetual idea of inexhaustible good."

A student of Christian Science was arrested by the following passage from Deuteronomy: "The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season." Applying this to her own past experiences in striving to demonstrate the truths of Christian Science, she saw clearly that every need had always been provided for when the occasion arose. From that time on there was with her less tendency to become anxious about any future step and to outline unduly the means for its accomplishment. It was seen, rather, that the primary consideration was her present application of the teachings of Christian Science in daily thought and life. Since God's work is complete and man reflects completeness, man's every need is already divinely provided for throughout eternity. Thus one can trust, with heaven-born conviction, to a fulfilling of the promise of available supply and help, as implied in the Biblical figure of "rain ... in his season." Fear of lack may appear in terms of any of the various exigencies that arise in human experience, whether the need be for ability, wisdom, opportunity, supply, health, or protection; but on such occasions the Godlike thinker can always be assured of the divine aid as ever present and all-powerful. Mrs. Eddy's words are significant (ibid., p. 307): "Never ask for to-morrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment."

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