Article December 5, 1964 Issue

Sufficiency

HAZEL A. WOOD

In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy includes in her answer to the question, "What is substance?" these statements (p. 468): "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay. Truth, Life, and Love are substance, as the Scriptures use this word in Hebrews: The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.'"

A dictionary defines "substance" in part as "ultimate reality that underlies all outward manifestations and change."

Mankind has long considered substance to be material. It has considered money, stocks, bonds, possessions, and so forth, things which are perishable and give no promise of permanence, to be substance. But dependence on these things for happiness has brought with it a fear that they might be lost in the exigencies of human experience.

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