SPIRITUAL sense, awakened through Christian Science, sees the vital question of support aright, and stands ready to relieve humanity of the mistaken, precarious sense of support which claims to obsess it. Human problems will be solved as the basis of support is understood. God, divine Mind, is responsible for the well-being of all creation: Being is reflected in well-being. Through spiritual understanding, pride of accomplishment and fear of failure are exposed as nothingness, and the unwitting egotism of believing that one is the sole support of dependents or is oneself a self-supporting human being is unmasked. Through spiritual vision, bitter envy and stress are also blotted out, as indeed they should be, taking into account the infinite, impartial provision of divine Love.
On page 511 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy states, "The divine Mind supports the sublimity, magnitude, and infinitude of spiritual creation." In this "sublimity, magnitude, and infinitude" there is nothing material or temporal, nothing ignoble or petty. All is spiritual, worthy of support, and supported. This is indicated in Moses' metaphorical statement, "Underneath are the everlasting arms."
What, then, is humanity's trouble? It is the belief that there is a second, material creation, self-dependent, remote from God, inconsistently ruled by chance and injustice. Christian Science teaches that divine Mind alone is self-existent and self-supporting, and that man's existence is in and of Mind. A realization of this irreversible fact lifts human thought above fear of fluctuating supply, variable opportunity, cycles of depression. Life, God, imparts life, and all that is needed for strength and sustenance. When health, funds, even practical necessities and visible means of support appear to be ebbing, what, primarily, is the human need? The need is of enlightened thinking, spiritual vision, holy inspiration transcending fear, and to this first need all must give first heed. How many are doing so?
