Article November 29, 1947 Issue

"GIVE YE THEM TO EAT"

CAROLINE E. BREMNER

In an endeavor to rouse Israel from wrongdoing, Amos, that great spokesman for righteousness, referring to the coming judgment declared (8:11): "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy tells us (p. 484), "The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals." So the famine in the world today is primarily a mental famine, the famine of "hearing the words of the Lord."

Human thought, striving to find a solution to the world's lack, is seeking in many directions, but it has largely overlooked the one outlined by Christ Jesus (Matt. 6:33), "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Earnest students of Christian Science are proving in their individual experience that God is unchanging wisdom and Love. As they understand His character or nature to be wholly good, and demonstrate in their daily living the qualities and attributes of the divine nature, their needs are supplied. But they need to watch that they are not mesmerized into believing that the chief need of humanity is for more material food or more adequate transportation, for these are the added things.

It is recorded in the fourteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel that a great multitude followed Jesus into the wilderness, where he healed their sick; but when it was evening, his disciples begged him to send the multitude away, that they might go into the villages and buy themselves food. In the Glossary to Science and Health (p. 586) Mrs. Eddy defines "evening" in part as "mistiness of mortal thought; weariness of mortal mind; obscured views." Not having the spiritual discernment and compassion of their Master, the disciples heard the clamor of minds many, and so became mentally weary, and through the mistiness of such material thinking they saw a great number of hungry people and a very small material supply at hand. Jesus, on the other hand, knew the nature of true supply, and so he was able to say to his disciples (verse 16), "They need not depart; give ye them to eat."

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