Article June 2, 1956 Issue

THE JOY OF GIVING AND ITS REWARD

GRACE WILSON STITT

"Wholly apart from this mortal dream, this illusion and delusion of sense, Christian Science comes to reveal man as God's image, His idea, coexistent with Him—God giving all and man having all that God gives," writes our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 5 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany." From this statement it is clear that the realm of the physical senses, where limitation seems to be experienced, is a false mental state, a temporal dream, from which mankind needs to be awakened.

True giving is spiritual, the expression of God's love for His creation. Then man, the reflection of God, Life, must forever manifest His love, and man's every thought must be imbued with the desire to give.

When one realizes the source of that which he has to give, he thereby opens the door to eternal abundance. Knowing that man forever reflects the abundance of the goodness of God, one can never feel reluctant or afraid to give, for he knows that man's wealth is spiritual, unlimited, infinite, ever present. He also knows that the child of God can never be deprived of the ability to express, or give forth, the qualities of God, because he is divinely endowed with intelligence, productiveness, holiness, beauty. Neither can he be impoverished by expressing good in giving, for his supply, which is always at hand, is incapable of being exhausted; it is infinite and flows from the divine source. Our Leader says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 79), "Giving does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker, neither does withholding enrich us."

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