Article September 6, 1941 Issue

Unfailing Abundance

MAUDE DE VERSE NEWTON

A student of Christian Science was troubled with an oppressive sense of fear, discouragement, and limitation. In her round of household tasks she paused at a pantry window, through which in the early morning she had tossed pieces of bread for her feathered friends. A loud cheeping arrested her attention, and she observed a fledgling standing in the very center of a slice of bread and demanding food with insistent calls.

The amused onlooker had a sudden revelation that she herself was doing just what the young bird was doing—asking for more in the midst of abundance. She began to realize that the infinite source of good was just as near to her and her loved ones as what it was calling for was to the fledgling. She asked herself what was obstructing her realization of this substance, and the answer, both for herself and for the bird, was—ignorance. In facing the question of ignorance, she saw that man, as the image and likeness of God, reflects divine Mind in unlimited wisdom, understanding, and discernment. As she dwelt on this spiritual fact, she found herself released from the bondage of belief in lack, and awake to the joyous freedom that was hers as the child of God.

Christ Jesus said, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." On page 590 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy defines the kingdom of heaven, knowledge of which the gentle Nazarene strove to establish in the hearts of his followers, as "the reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme." Not gold and chattels and fine raiment and rich viands, but the kingdom of heaven, is the priceless gift which the Father bestows on His children. With the consecrated seeking and finding of this kingdom one discerns and demonstrates the truth of supply as naturally as he solves a simple problem in mathematics.

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