Article February 20, 1954 Issue

NOT A MAGIC POCKET

ALICE CORTRIGHT

A Little girl who played much alone used to claim in her imagination a magic pocket which always had a dollar in it. Should she need ten dollars she need only to reach into the pocket ten times, for it just necessarily always had to have a dollar in it. Thus she had no worries as to monetary affairs.

This little girl, grown up, became a student of Christian Science and thereby learned to trust the all-embracing, unchanging love of our Father-Mother God, who knows no limits of dollars or pockets, and of whom the Psalmist declared (Ps. 145:16), "Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." It became her happy privilege to prove for herself and two daughters that God "is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Eph. 3:20). This power, the student learned, must be acknowledged and understood as the God-power, which completely supersedes all material beliefs and plans.

In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 286): "God's thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance and Life. Material and temporal thoughts are human, involving error, and since God, Spirit, is the only cause, they lack a divine cause." This student learned that man, as God's spiritual idea, is always at the point of perfection, and that one needs only to reject false fears and material suggestions in order to find close at hand the Father's loving provision for a beloved child. In following to the best of her understanding the example of the master Christian she has found every need abundantly supplied in the proportion that she has understood that the power that works in her is God, universal good.

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