Article January 1, 1966 Issue

Effective Steps

RICHARD WARREN WILKINSON

Those seeking to know what steps to take to find supply, direction in their lives, physical healing, or spiritual awakening and purification will be helped by Jesus' words (Luke 11:9), "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Today, the world over, Christians and non-Christians alike are looking for answers to the same problems and living in much the same mental environment as existed two thousand years ago, with hunger, poverty, "wars and rumours of wars" (Mark 13:7), and indecision hanging like threatening clouds and with the even greater needs of moral awakening and freedom.

Less than one hundred years ago Mrs. Eddy pointed out the way whereby these longings of the world might be satisfied. She writes in Science and Health (p. 264), "We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being."

In seeking the unfoldment of supply, the Christian Scientist acts as possessing all good already; he is aware of the individual need, as well as the needs of his community and of his church. And he is assured of not being impoverished by his giving, because he gives not to receive in return, but in the hope of doing good for others.

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