Article March 17, 1973 Issue

Restoration

ROBERT HUTCHINSON-BROOKS

Thousands of people today are separated from home, possessions, loved ones. The reasons for this displacement and deprivation are many and varied. They include occupation of homelands by war or political infiltration, military service, business commitments, imprisonment, famine, flood, fire, and fear.

But this is nothing new. In the Bible are accounts of the uprooting of individuals and even nations. Greed, conquest, tyranny, and calamities of nature caused people to suffer then as they do today. Again and again the prophets urged the Israelites to look to God instead of material sources for their help and restoration. How much unhappiness could be avoided if people would turn to God, omnipotent Mind, who "satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness," and "bringeth them out of their distresses"! Ps. 107:9, 28;

Through the discovery of the Science of Christianity by Mary Baker Eddy, the positive law of God's harmonious rule was revealed for all mankind to understand and utilize. Mrs. Eddy relates the rule of God's law to divine Principle. She says of it in Science and Health: "The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution. Shall we ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own work? His work is done, and we have only to avail ourselves of God's rule in order to receive His blessing, which enables us to work out our own salvation." Science and Health, p. 3;

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