A Great blessing to a family of Christian Scientists came in an increased understanding of Mary Baker Eddy's words on page 307 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for to-morrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help: and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment."

These words had often been used to rout a fearful sense of lack or of concern for the morrow; their truth had brought comfort and reassurance to human consciousness. But a larger unfoldment concerning the supply of spiritual ideas which limitless Spirit provides for its children brought an increased sense of God's allness. This was evidenced in "daily supplies" in the following instances.

When measles appeared, the foregoing sentences were remembered. It was seen that disease results from our believing that we lack an understanding of God as All-in-all. This belief of lack, in whatever form, is dispelled as we recognize the ever-present supply of God's spiritual ideas. These ideas, coming constantly to man, affirm his health, his freedom, and ensure the interchange of good alone between his brother and himself.

Man does not go through periods of growth—one of which is childhood—subject to contagious diseases. He always possesses perfect health. The very presence of God's ideas denies the lack of health and affirms the presence of health. In the consciousness filled with these thoughts there is no room for measles or any other discord. With the realization of these truths a healing of measles was quickly accomplished and the availability of spiritual ideas to meet daily needs was proved.

At another time, this family had the opportunity to accept the supply of God's spiritual ideas and reject a sense of lack in what appeared to be an accident. When the automobile left the road and was partially turned over in a deep ditch, these students of Christian Science denied mortal mind's claim of lack of safety and harmony and affirmed the supply of right ideas. They were reassured by the truth that in reality they ever dwelt in God's universe, from which no power could remove them; that in God's firm love they were unshaken.

They knew there was no mortal mind that could claim to subject them to accident, to fear, to carelessness, for as God's ideas they lived and moved and had their being in Him, and He alone had the power to govern them, move them, direct them. Once out of the car, they again affirmed the ever-presence of Love and its guiding angels by singing a hymn of gratitude from the Christian Science Hymnal. Although the road was a lonely one, some fifty miles from their home, and no one was near by at the time, they were led to take proper steps for providing for the care of the car, and their need for transportation to their home was quickly met. Here again the presence of right ideas to meet the human need was evidenced.

As we perceive the limitless nature of Spirit, God and realize ever more clearly that there is no mortal mind to claim that it has a place here or there in God's omnipresence, we find ourselves more constantly entertaining only the supply of spiritual ideas. It is a joy to realize that only that which is unlike God can have the word "lack" attached to it. And that word is indicative of its unprincipled nature, therefore of its nothingness.

If we see our brother as unloving, then we believe there is a lack of love in God's universe. That will never do. We cannot be accepting God's spiritual ideas and seeing them manifest as daily supply, if at the same moment we believe there is a real lack of love in man. Constant looking at God's complete, abundantly supplied universe, constant realization that we and our brother, as the children of God, are the divinely endowed, well-beloved inhabitants of this universe—this knowledge leaves us free to accept God's supply of good for ourselves and others.

There is no moment when we cannot be gratefully acknowledging the completeness, the fullness, of God's love. That is why we are directed, "Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment." If we look to the future for fullness, we are accepting lack in the present. Instead, let us recognize that each moment evidences the provision of Love, the thoughtfulness of Mind, the activity of Life, and the spiritual, therefore unending, nature of all these qualities. There is no room for concern for tomorrow in our thought. There is only great gratitude for the fullness of today.

Here is one more instance in which this Christian Science family used the truth already quoted. In connection with this quotation from Mrs. Eddy's writings, they used a verse from the Bible as a definite promise (Mal. 3:10): "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Two members of the family had for some time desired the privilege of class instruction. Likewise, they had desired a piano for their home. Funds were available for one of the two, and there was no question in their thought as to which should come first.

The wonderful joy and progress evidenced as the result of class instruction proved the wisdom of their decision. It was more than a year after this progressive step when there came a remarkable illumination of the sentence quoted from "Miscellaneous Writings," and also a fuller understanding of one of the synonyms for God— Spirit. The limitless and universal nature of Spirit was more fully realized. They found that studying along these lines and claiming the truth for themselves as children of God made Christian Science more practical than it had ever been before.

There was not a moment when the supply of right ideas, rather than the lack of them, could not be claimed. The piano, as a needed material addition to their home, had slipped from thought. It was at this time of illumined spiritual-mindedness that a piano came to them in a most unexpected manner. The joy it brought was great. Everything about the experience showed forth the satisfaction and the exalted thought that only demonstration brings.

The inspired statements of our Leader give us infinitely provable truths. We must expect continuous unfoldment of good, multiplication of the evidences of good, and increase of the power of Truth to be manifested in the thought and lives of men.