IN Science and Health we read that "whatever blesses one blesses all" (p. 206); and what a joy it is to have proof of this truth in one's own experience, to learn that under the government of divine Principle what results in the best good to one also meets the need of another. One may avail himself of Love's unlimited, inexhaustible supply without in any way decreasing another's resources; indeed he rather adds to them by bringing out his own abundance. How different is this from the material sense of getting, which is possible only by taking away from others! Shakespeare had a glimpse of spiritual law when he wrote:—
The quality of mercy is not strained,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
The student of Christian Science knows that spiritual things are more than twice blessed; he learns that they are infinitely blessed, and that this spiritual law is applicable in all directions. A true thought held in consciousness brings happiness and healing to him who holds it. Again, this same thought expressed by the spoken word brings happiness and healing to another, and any one who has experienced it knows that the joy of the healed cannot excel the joy of the healer. The expression of truth in the testimony meetings benefits a goodly number of individuals, while the written word, published in the Christian Science periodicals, reaches around the world,—and who can tell how great is its work? In every case, too, the giver is more richly blessed than those who receive.
