Article September 8, 1951 Issue

THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND

LUCIA C. COULSON

THE subject of supply is an urgent one in world affairs at present. On every hand we hear of shortage. In "Retrospection and Introspection" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 67), "The first iniquitous manifestation of sin was a finity." That belief, of course, is at the bottom of every claim of limitation. When we see that in God's universe everything partakes of the nature of infinity, there is no place left for lack. Every idea being infinite, if there is enough for one there is enough for all. That must have been the way in which Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes in the Syrian desert. He was conscious of the infinite nature of all divine ideas.

Now let us look at another aspect of this question—the law of supply and demand. Mrs. Eddy tells us in her writings that it is deific law that invariably supply meets demand (see Miscellaneous Writings, p. 45). This fact should be pondered. First of all, it is a law that is announced, and law is that which carries with it the power of enforcement. Secondly, it is deific law, the actual law of Almighty God. Nothing can interfere with that. And what is the law? That supply meets demand? Yes, but more than that. Supply invariably meets demand. What a promise!

To carefully consider this should change our whole attitude towards supply, for it means that whatever the need, the supply is there simultaneously with the demand. Suppose, then, that a lack or a need comes into our experience. What comes with it? The supply. They are coexistent. If there is a large demand which seems alarming, what should we look for? The equally large supply that comes with it. Let us keep our mental gaze on this positive truth. The trouble is that when there is a demand and we feel the claim of lack, we keep our thought focused on the lack, instead of instantly holding in thought the spiritual supply that is already there to meet it, remembering that the law of God is that invariably supply meets demand.

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