Article August 31, 1946 Issue

The Divine Remedy for Shortage

ALICE S. HINKSON

Thoughtful people are today expending much time and effort to care for the hungry in war-torn nations and are using every human means and method to alleviate the urgent need. Other shortages so apparent in housing, employment, and material likewise call for solution. Is there a way out?

As a student of Christian Science was pondering the question of widespread shortage and seeking its answer, she opened her Bible to the fourteenth chapter of Matthew. As her eyes fell on the account of Christ Jesus' feeding of the five thousand (verses 15-21), her first impulse was to say aloud, "Oh, I know this passage very well." She was arrested, however, by the knowledge gained from experience that the familiar accounts of the Master gain in meaning and widen in application as they are more spiritually discerned. So, humbly and prayerfully she studied each line.

She perceived that the simple yet positive rules whereby Jesus solved his own problems and those of others who sought his help were to a large extent based on four spiritual requisites. The first, expectation, is indicated in Jesus' words, "They need not depart; give ye them to eat," spoken to the disciples, who urged him to send away the hungry multitude. Knowing that his Father-Mother, God, was rich beyond measure, the Master confidently expected every legitimate need to be supplied by the tender solicitude of God for His children. When we are confronted with stirring appeals, can we not say with the same confident expectation, "They need not depart; give ye them to eat"?

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