Possibly there is no problem more generally considered by humanity today than that of realizing sufficient supply to meet daily requirements. The income of many seems insufficient. Learned educators and experienced economists endeavor to ascertain the causes and possible remedies for this condition; but without the spiritual approach to the question provided within the Bible and the writings of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, no mere analysis of mortal beliefs can reach a satisfactory solution of the problem.
The Scriptures contain inspiring and sacred promises of God's continuing provision for His spiritual creation. A notable instance is cited in the sixteenth chapter of Exodus, which sets forth the experiences of the children of Israel following their liberation from Egyptian bondage Therein it is recorded that the people murmured against Moses, the great Hebrew prophet and lawgiver, who led the Israelites from Egypt through the wilderness toward Canaan. How great and how serious must have seemed the problem to provide food for so large a company in a wilderness barren of suitable supplies! So real did lack appear to the material senses, darkened as to Love's infinite ability to meet human needs, that it was argued that bondage and the fleshpots of Egypt were to be preferred to freedom with what appeared to be starvation.
Moses was able in some degree to apprehend that God provides sufficient supply to meet the human need, and in the morning "upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground." To this food, supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness, was given the name manna, signifying, "What is it?" The instruction was to gather "an omer for every man." An interesting aspect of the impartial nature of Love's bestowals may be gleaned from this Scriptural record, for each one was to gather "according to his eating," and "he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack." On the day preceding the Sabbath, "two omers for one man" were permitted to be gathered.
