The view which sees supply as something that must be earned by the sweat of the brow or by mere human smartness has not brought lasting success to anyone, and many have found that material methods present no way out of their difficulties regarding supply.
The following promise in Isaiah is comforting to parents in bringing up their children in these uncertain times: "All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
"For right reasoning," Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "there should he but one fact before the thought, namely, spiritual existence.
A young woman who had been brought up to "always finish what you start" began to find, as her house filled up with children, that the demands of motherhood never seemed to enable her to finish anything she started.
Sometimes in Christian Science treatment, or prayer, before we feel the love that heals instantaneously, we have to spend hours in affirming the truth of God's goodness and in vigorously denying the presence or power of evil.
