"THEY considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened." Such is Mark's arresting comment concerning the wondering disciples when Jesus, whom they had seen walking upon the sea, "went up unto them into the ship." Eyewitnesses of the miraculous draft of fishes, of the feeding of the five thousand and of the four thousand, the disciples on one occasion, when Jesus warned them to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, said among themselves, "It is because we have no bread." At this Jesus himself seemed full of wonderment, and then the love that laid not sin to their charge questioned them, "How is it that ye do not understand?" He also asked whether, having eyes and ears, they neither heard nor saw. Patiently along his Love-ordained pathway he proceeded, continuing his brave ascent up the perilous steeps of revealing to men the way of complete salvation.
Today again, in its extremity, a world with the accumulated civilization of centuries behind it is asking for bread. Business, prostrated by penury of spiritual understanding, throws out its arms toward new experiments. Again it seems a far cry from the forgotten days of manna, of the widow's cruse of oil, of the coin in the fish's mouth; and again Jesus' questionings are pertinent: "Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? . . . Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?"
Here Christian Science sounds the new-old keynote — Immanuel! It gives us the revelation of God, divine Principle, whose ways are not our ways, and whose thoughts are not our thoughts. Through Principle and definite rules it reinstates the understanding of the operation of divine law in human experience; it reveals God's overflowing resources all about us and available. Is it not astonishing that mortals, having eyes, cannot see them? Here the teachings of Christian Science reveal, and experience again corroborates, that the demonstrations of Truth cannot be gathered by human belief; that only faith, enlightened by spiritual understanding, reaps them.
