Inexhaustible Supply CARL HORTON PIERCE          Because of our past education and environment we have been accustomed to think of money as the basis of our supply, and the human mind insists that it is; whereas supply is found in the intelligence which enables us to solve the problems that confront us. A situation which seems insurmountable to the businessman or housewife, is not insurmountable at all when one comes to analyze it in the light of Christian Science.          A little intelligent discussion; a willingness to yield one's will to the divine; a desire to take the step nearest at hand instead of trying to reach the top rung of the ladder before taking the lowest one; a meekness and gratitude for the privilege of solving the problem, rather than indignation because one has it to solve, and a righteous activity in proceeding to the solution, — these factors not only bring about satisfactory demonstrations, but they make it apparent that spiritual intelligence and not money is the means by which the answer has been obtained. Money cannot give the solution of our difficulties, but the reflection of intelligence, when brought into operation through unswerving faith and application, not only aids one to have the money at hand wherewith to meet his obligations, but it goes still farther by giving one those incidentals of harmonious life experience which mankind is wont to admit that money cannot buy.          This consciousness of supply as the manifestation of intelligence, obtained and retained, brings into one's experience more and more of affluence of thought and abundance of supply, so that not only one's own but the world's great need is met. For example, let us say that out of tribulation and suffering one has gleaned even a meager glimpse of that compassion which actuated Christ Jesus. From this wellspring of tenderness he is able to supply the needs of many others. Since "Love is reflected in love" (Science and Health, p. 17), the supply necessarily returns to the sender in whatever way will best meet his need. Certainly this is the experience of every earnest giver of good, every follower who is laboring in the vineyard, every faithful steward. In olden days we may not have been able to grasp the justice in Jesus' statement, "Whosoever hath, to him shall be given;" but in the light of Science we understand that every man "has" because intelligence is infinite here and now, is waiting always to be applied, and in reality is always an inseparable integer of man's spiritual consciousness. Therefore he who realizes that man has, "to him shall be given" in proportion to his exercise of this universally bestowed "talent."          Supply, then, means not only the receiving of good, as has been commonly believed, but the active doing of good; the intelligent application of our understanding of the divine Mind to every little detail of individual human experience, — the finding of a seemingly lost article; the outworking of a patent; the cleaning of a house; the founding of a business, — more than this, it means the giving out of truth in the healing work of Christian Science, which brings a rich return in blessings. While these other things are all related to human experience, they nevertheless have also a right to be, and are, governed harmoniously, even as Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health: "Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so called, as well as in the spiritual" (p. 427). Someone has said that in no way is God to be comprehended except as He is made manifest in the lives of those about us. God's infinitude of supply must be cognized in the abundance of our patience and compassion. Thus, as mankind becomes more Christlike in deed, harmony is substituted for discord and abundant supply for want.          Concurrent with this growing realization that supply is expressed by the reflection of divine intelligence rather than by money or any material possession, what peace enters the heart of the Christian Scientist as he begins to realize that no man taketh his joy from him! His joy multiplies, and his supply of good multiplies, as he realizes that he is really laying up treasures where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt. There is a feeling of security which bank accounts never gave and which their loss can never take away. Panic, pestilence, famine, woe, — these are powerless to rob such a one of his realization of the divine affluence, and, as our revered Leader points out in Science and Health, "to those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings" (Pref., p. vii).   "Inexhaustible Supply" by Carl Horton Pierce Christian Science Sentinel, February 22, 1913

 

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