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Feeding Earth's Famine
The solution for replenishing the world's apparently ravaged food supply is in Mind, not matter. Mortals are limited to what is at present classified by material laws as proper human food; but there exists an inexhaustible store of true nourishment, yet to be discovered in infinite Mind.
Even human history hints that the real need is for life-giving ideas, and not merely for greater production of known foods. From the beginning of time, mankind has undergone periods of famine when most of its available food sources were cut off either by war or by plague; but new sources have often been discovered. At various times someone has had the vision to develop new edibles from something which had previously been thought either poisonous or useless.
Is not God's provision for His children stated in Genesis 1:29: "And God said. Behold. I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat"? Hence we can have confidence that the immediate need will be met, and pray that ignorant beliefs of life and substance in matter may give way to a better understanding of God's providence. This was the method of Christ Jesus in feeding the multitudes, and it is the method of Christian Science. Jesus tenderly fed his followers with the bread and fishes at hand, because that was their need at the moment; but he also said, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger."
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October 23, 1943 issue
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A Unique History
ROBERT ELLIS KEY
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Joy in Motherhood
EVELYN JOY ALBRIGHT
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Christian Science and the War Worker
NEIL MARTIN
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"Mommy, carry my hand!"
ALICE TROXELL MC COUN
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Feeding Earth's Famine
FRANK SADDLER
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Instant and Constant News
CONSTANCE F. BURNHAM
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Preparing for Service
L. PRESCOTT PLATT
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The Mother Church Wartime Fund
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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"Stand upright.... Be strong"
Evelyn F. Heywood
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No Grief in Truth's Victory
Paul Stark Seeley
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In a recent issue of yours I notice...
Robert E. Key
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Christian Science Committee on Publication for Wisconsin Reports
with contributions from De Tocqueville
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This testimony is given in response...
Myrta K. Renwick
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Christian Science has been a...
Eleanor Jessie James
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Words alone can never express...
Myrtle Curry
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The work done by the Bible Lesson Committe...
Wilbur K. Schmitt
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In Psalms we read, "Let the redeemed...
Benjamin Goldin
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I deem it my duty to testify to...
Colette R. Van der Zijl
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With an earnest desire to share...
Edna Grabe
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from W. W. Ward, Wendell Willkie, William O. Douglas, Joseph Irvine Chapman, E. Montenecourt, Harold L. Lundquist