Editorial June 17, 1991 Issue

Accepting God's economy

Allison W. Phinney

During the great Depression in the United States, in the 1930s, unemployment was at an all-time high. Many had an extremely difficult time even putting food on the table. But scores of accounts during those years in issues of the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Journal tell of people's finding that prayer from the standpoint of Christian Science helped them immeasurably.

They found that tough times were jarring them loose from comfortable, generalized hopes about a material existence. They were forced to depend on God to an extent they might never have expected. Because they had little choice, they began to be willing to think very differently about God.

Now, their prayer actively affirmed God's total goodness and unbroken control of man and creation, and so they refused to be daunted by the obvious material evidence of what they lacked. They were choosing instead to learn about, and to demonstrate, what Christian Scientists call the Science of being, the Science of God's government and His laws. They were willing to make sharp distinctions between what worldly thought generally assumed and what they were learning spiritually of God and His expression, man.

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