Article March 21, 1953 Issue

SPIRITUAL SUBSTANCE IS SUPPLY

HARRIETTE MELDRIM LAKE

"Faith ," declared the writer to the Hebrews (11:1), "is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Now, as then, people look to matter for substance and thereby lose it. The need is not for more matter, but for a higher sense of substance and an understanding that it is spiritual and indestructible. Looking to God for substance, one finds it, and finds also the outward manifestation of "things hoped for." Mary Baker Eddy proclaims this fact in these words from her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 494): "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."

In the midst of poverty there can be wealth; likewise, in the midst of wealth there can be poverty. The evidence depends upon the state of consciousness.

Some time ago an individual suffering from an acute belief of lack entered the office of a Christian Science practitioner. He had no position, no money, no food; he was a stranger in town, and his rent for the past week was overdue. His outlook was blank. He had accepted lack. He told the practitioner that he had seen deplorable lack in the bombed-out areas after the war and that they had made such an impression on his thought that he unconsciously carried this picture with him.

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