Article December 31, 1955 Issue

SUPPLY FINDING EXPRESSION

W. STUART BOOTH

Of the three quotations from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" selected by its author, Mary Baker Eddy, as suitable to be inscribed on the walls of Christian Science churches, probably the one first listed by her is most frequently used. It is found on page 494 of the textbook and reads, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."

Mrs. Eddy had abundant Scriptural authority for the voicing of that immense statement and its encouraging promise. She was a deep student of the Bible, and as she read its pages with God-inspired spiritual understanding, she was impressed by the fact that what are commonly regarded as miracles are but signs or evidences of the operation of God's law of harmony and health, of protection and providence. Basic to Mrs. Eddy's spiritual understanding was God's revelation to her of the deific Being as immaculately pure and perfect. The prophet Habakkuk states, in referring to God (1:13), "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."

Thus Christian Science leads us to consider as proofs of divine Love's power, protection, and providence many of the experiences related in the Bible. We read of the sustenance of the Israelites during their forty years' journey from Egyptian bondage to the promised land; of Elijah the prophet, who was brought bread and flesh morning and evening by the ravens and who was fed later at Zarephath by a widow who had believed that her scant supply of meal and oil was nearly exhausted. The Bible relates that when the widow accepted Elijah's assurance of abundance "the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail" (I Kings 17:16).

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