Article September 21, 1957 Issue

NO LACK, NO SURPLUS

GEORGE EDWARD HARRIS, JR.

A student of Christian Science whose income seemed deficient set about establishing in his consciousness, and thereby in his experience, the self-evident truth that, since God, Love, is infinite, man, faithfully reflecting Him, enjoys all the abundance of Love. He recognized that as infinity with any limit at all would not be infinity, so God without His fullness would not be God, and man lacking any good thing would not be man. He knew that God is forever complete and that, therefore, His expression must be complete.

In the light of this certainty, the Scientist expected to behold ample provision for his needs; and promptly his income doubled, then tripled, and then quadrupled. Most unexpectedly he found that in the first phase of this development he had lost surplus flesh, about which he had not even been reasoning at the time. He knew, nevertheless, that Love is also Principle and that Principle operates according to invariable law. He then saw that the simultaneous gain of what was desirable and the loss of what was undesirable must have resulted from the application of the rule of divine perfection.

Mary Baker Eddy counsels us (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 411), "Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear of patients." It is interesting to note that often corpulence betrays a specific fear in some direction. perhaps latent, perhaps disguised, yet unmistakable.

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