Article January 12, 1946 Issue

"Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth"

MARGARET SCOTT FINN

In Genesis we are told that God blessed His children and told them to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth." Mary Baker Eddy explains this passage in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in these words (p. 517): "Divine Love blesses its own ideas, and causes them to multiply,—to manifest His power."

Studying the life of Jesus, our Exemplar, we find many instances of his meeting the needs of those around him through manifesting the power of Truth and Love, and this was accomplished through multiplication, not through division. He supplied the needs of others not by depriving himself or anyone else, but by recognizing the ever-presence of good in all its abundance. Thus he was able to satisfy every right demand. He never tried to comply with the demands of mortal mind, but he saw through these demands to the spiritual need of those seeking his help.

The Master's understanding of the illimitability of spiritual ideas enabled him instantly to behold the answer in Mind. An instance of this is given in his immediately providing sufficient food to feed five thousand people. While his disciples were wondering how a few small loaves and fishes could be divided among so many, Jesus lifted his thought to the realm of Spirit, where substance is infinite and indivisible, and from this standpoint he was able to demonstrate the power of Truth to destroy the lie of lack.

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