Article July 30, 1955 Issue

EVER-PRESENT SUPPLY

DONALD PEARCE

In these days of ever-rising prices, how do we. as students of Christian Science, think of supply? Do we think of it as spiritual ideas from God, ever available, here and now, to meet our every need? Or do we, almost unconsciously, accept the suggestion that we are at a distance from the source of our supply and have to be connected to it. as a diver on the ocean bed is connected with his supply of air through a hose from the surface? Are we, like the diver, occasionally anxious lest our supply be restricted or cut off? Sure though we may be that God's ideas are limitless, are we equally sure that their abundance will always be manifested to us? If not, can it be that we are looking at supply from the wrong point of view?

Perhaps we are allowing the ordinarily accepted human sense of supply to influence our thinking on this subject. The very word supply may conjure up a mental picture of something coming to us, rather than of something being here all the time. Perhaps we feel that God's ideas are not always right here, but come to us only as we need them. Although that may seem to be the case, such a concept gives us a feeling of separation. When we ponder Mary Baker Eddy's words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 361), "As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man. Father and son, are one in being," we see that any separation between God and man is impossible. God and man, the Giver and the receiver, are one in being as Mind and idea. Man, in his true selfhood, is inseparable, then, from abundance.

Many may feel that although this may be true in absolute truth, it is of little practical value to them in paying the rent or in buying a new coat. They may feel that what they really need is a larger income. Let us consider the word income for a moment: what it is and whence its source. Usually an income takes the form of payment for services rendered. Whether we work in a factory, on the land, in an office or shop, we exercise our skill, utilize our professional knowledge or specialized ability in the performing of useful services. And we are expressing intelligence, accuracy, alertness, honesty, courtesy, and the like—all mental qualities.

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