Article November 16, 1946 Issue

A Table in the Wilderness

OLGA B. MARTIN

In every corner of the world lips are earnestly repeating the words Christ Jesus used when he taught us to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Today this prayer has a new and urgent significance. Daily bread, which normally appeared on the tables of most men, poor and rich alike, is now a commodity in very short supply. This problem of food shortage concerns us all, for we are, as Paul said (Eph. 4:25), "members one of another." The world has been slow to learn that "whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it" (I Cor. 12:26).

Surely our duty as Christian Scientists is to clarify our individual thinking. There can be no justification for saying to those crying out for refreshment, "Depart ... be ye warmed and filled." Our service to God demands that in proportion to our understanding of Truth we share it with our brother man. An understanding of infinite divine Love will be evidenced in meeting the human need by sharing what understanding we have. We know that it is not by bread alone that man lives, but by "every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God," and when we pray for daily bread, we also pray: "Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 17).

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