Love's purpose is that we trustingly turn to God for guidance. Mary Baker Eddy says in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (p. 19), "Jesus said, 'Ask, and ye shall receive;' and if not immediately, continue to ask, and because of your often coming it shall be given unto you." Thus we have our Way-shower's word corroborated by our Leader's that every problem is solvable.

Can we conceive of a human problem being greater than infinite intelligence, or God? The Apostle Paul asks (Rom. 8:35, 37): "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?... Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." In other words, nothing can separate us from the only Love, wisdom, and power that actually exist. When we recognize this fact and earnestly pray to be shown the way, God will disclose to us all that we need to know. His Word does not return to Him void, but accomplishes for us what He wills.

There was a time when a student of Christian Science seemed sorely tried. She found that the tenants in one of her apartments were undesirable. She earnestly endeavored to apply the truth she had learned in Christian Science, namely, that evil, intemperance of any nature, could not disturb her house. She knew her true house to be the consciousness of good, harmony, purity.

Seemingly her work was futile. At about the same time another problem presented itself. A room in her own home was vacated by a desirable tenant, so cutting off some of her financial supply. Mortal mind argued that there was a shortage of living space, yet no one applied for the room.

Doubt crept into the student's thought as to whether, in her confusion, she would rightly hear the still small voice of Love that would guide her; also fear that further suffering might follow because of her mistake in taking the undesirable tenants. The suggestion argued loss of harmony if she kept them or loss of income if she ejected them. Willing to be obedient to the divine command to go higher, she asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner, which was given.

The practitioner sought to make clear to the student that Christianly scientific work did not include an arbitrary ousting of the tenants or attempts to rent a vacant room, but consisted solely in admitting and maintaining the truth about God: that He is All-in-all; that good is everywhere present; that the divine law of demand and supply is ever operative and ever in absolute balance. She pointed out that more love for God and her fellow man and a clearer understanding of man's oneness with God and man's divine heritage of all that is good were needed. Also, she said that a quiet confidence in the completeness of Love's purpose and the joyous realization that His wisdom solves every human problem would either heal the untoward conditions in the apartment or remove them.

One day the practitioner spoke of her own experience. Some years previously she had purchased a small apartment building. She herself occupied one flat in it, but it seemed necessary that she rent one of her rooms. This she did for a time; then she rejected the human argument of financial necessity and let divine Mind point the way. She transformed this room into an office for her Christian Science practice. Those seeking healing came in increasing numbers to her door.

This confident turning to God, with its beautiful results, made a deep impression upon the student. She sought with greater consecration to let go of all doubt and fear and let God work out His purpose.

With gratitude for the oft-proved fact that God's care for His children is not intermittent, but constant and unchanged by material conditions, she rejoiced to find that she no longer felt fearful as she thought of the vacant room. Indeed, she had ceased to consider that it was not occupied. When this realization of God's care for her came, she thanked God for a lesson learned.

Within a few days the apartment tenants notified her that they were leaving immediately and going to another city to live. A few days later a satisfactory family occupied the apartment. This was followed almost at once by an application for the vacant room by a Christian Scientist.

When the student had let Love govern by opening wide her thought to behold God's loving care of man and the perpetual beauty of His purpose, both problems had been quickly solved. Mind had held the solution all the time. The first thing needed was more love, coupled with a positive refusal to entertain resentment and the endeavor to see man as in reality the child of God, and to understand that the need was to correct her own thought. God knows nothing of mistakes. He knows nothing of human arguments of suffering from mistakes.

Freedom from fear of lack was attained by a firm refusal to listen to human arguments of limitation and a humble acceptance of God's loving-kindness and His unceasing provision for His children. Mrs. Eddy beautifully expresses this in these words in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 127): "When a hungry heart petitions the divine Father-Mother God for bread, it is not given a stone,—but more grace, obedience, and love. If this heart, humble and trustful, faithfully asks divine Love to feed it with the bread of heaven, health, holiness, it will be conformed to a fitness to receive the answer to its desire." And in the Bible we read (Josh. 1:7), "Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, ... turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest."