What a wealth of comfort, hope, and assurance is given us in the Christian Science textbook! Therein is found the answer to every problem when its teaching is understood. We should constantly affirm the truth, as stated by Mary Baker Eddy (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468), that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." We learn in Christian Science that Truth supplies us with spiritual ideas, which, when utilized, enable us to prove that the understanding of divine goodness banishes the false beliefs of lack of health and harmony, of happiness and well-being, and establishes the fact of the perfection of Mind and its manifestations.

Since "God is All-in-all," God is the source of all supply. Man, the image and likeness of God, His complete reflection, is supplied with everything essential to harmony and wholeness. Therefore, in order to manifest the necessary supply, it is essential for us to know more of "the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy." In this way we are able to prove that suggestions of lack of any kind are met through spiritual understanding. Every effort of the carnal mind to make us believe that there is not a sufficiency of good for everyone, and that the demonstration of supply is not easy to accomplish, is without reality or power. Through Christian Science, the understanding of God's allness can be proved adequate to meet every legitimate need.

The all-knowing Mind supplies its ideas with everything needful for their completeness, power, and activity. The allness of God makes it impossible for lack to be real, to have either place or power. To believe in the absence of good is to deny the omnipresence of God; it is to accept as real the suggestions of inefficiency, insufficiency, inability, unhappiness, disease, and other false beliefs, whereas these errors do not really exist. They have neither entity nor identity, and cannot separate us from the love of God, from our true heritage of perfection and completeness. The false belief of lack can be proved unreal when we accept the spiritual fact that man derives his supply from God, Mind, the source of all peace, health, contentment, satisfaction, joy, and dominion.

Christian Science gives us the consciousness of eternal, ever-present good, shows us that man lives in the kingdom of Love, and is forever enjoying the bountifulness of Spirit. Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., p. 106): "God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love." He is equipped with divine wisdom and intelligence, manifests the riches of Love, is free from suggestions of restriction or impairment, and is never affected by erroneous beliefs of fluctuation or variation, because he is God's idea, the perfect expression of a perfect creator; and this truth is demonstrable here and now.

We should use the understanding of supply as spiritual by living what we know of good, bringing to our various interests and occupations the truth about the real man; for so is every seeming effort of error to delay right activity or to obstruct harmony rendered powerless and its nothingness proved. May we pray to be so imbued with the Christspirit that in our every contact with others we shall manifest the true consciousness of Life, Truth, and Love. God is Love. Love's nature is to give, and through spiritual understanding all may be the recipients of the bountiful goodness of God, and thus be empowered to give forth those thoughts or ideas which bless and heal.

The spiritual understanding gained through Christian Science enables us to demonstrate the truth of supply and to bring about right results. A business man, a sincere student of Christian Science, was faced with a very sick business. Humanly, everything pointed to failure and loss, and for a time he doubted his ability to make the demonstration of harmony, which he knew should be done if he were to glorify God in his work; and this was his honest desire. He studied the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's writings; he had help from a practitioner and faithfully endeavored to use the ideas which came to his thought. He was shown that because he knew God, knew his oneness with God, had accepted the truth of being as revealed in Christian Science, and knew the nothingness of matter, he had the right to prove God's presence sufficient to meet his need. He was told that he must not allow himself to accept the seeming evidence of the physical senses, but must see the real man, the image and likeness of God, manifesting only divine qualities, including patience and wisdom.

He saw that right persistence, resourcefulness, ability, and expectancy of good were bringing his needed supply to that business. He held firmly to the consciousness of God as good, as alone real, and as everywhere present. He cleared his thought of pride, fear, hate, envy, and other errors which did not express God. He watched carefully that he gave good service, which consisted of loving-kindness, sincerity, and honesty. He endeavored to live in the sunshine of Truth, to know what business really is and what its purpose is. Gradually the clouds faded away; more activity, interest, support, and fruition were experienced. His understanding brought a true sense of supply to the business: the healing was complete.

Another student a teacher in a day school, was given a class of children who had to be prepared for an examination. They were difficult to deal with, for they had not assimilated what they had been taught, and the situation looked hopeless. The teacher, however, loved her work, and was striving to use her growing understanding of God. The task before her seemed formidable; what could she do? She carefully studied the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly. She also had Christian Science treatment, and was enabled to keep her thought clear about God and man, to know the oneness of Mind and Mind's ideas, to realize the presence of true qualities, such as alertness, obedience, and sincerity. She too was shown that her right knowing was helping to bring the true sense of supply to those children. Thus the truth broke down the lie which claimed that they were limited, lacking the necessary talents, and at the time of the examination they did well, many of them being enabled to go to a higher grade of school on that account. She learned that God supplied her with trust and confidence, and with the understanding that all God's children dwell in Love's kingdom and are ever expressing divine intelligence.

Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 206), "In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply." When we accept this teaching, we work from the standpoint of the allness of God, Mind, and the perfection of man as Mind's manifestation; then we see the nothingness of that which does not express divine goodness.

Christian Science is supplying us with the ability to see man as God's idea, and, consequently, to unsee the false evidence of the so-called material senses; to be healthy in thought and outlook; to be tolerant and humble; to appreciate the good in others; to follow in the footsteps of the Way-shower; and to prove in our daily experience in every situation that we can accept the promise, "Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed."