We hear a good deal these days about the lowering of the standard of living throughout the world. We are told that the necessity for war equipment has already forced and will continue to force the equipment for our homes and usual businesses out of the way.
A dictionary defines "standard of living" as "a minimum of necessities, comforts, or luxuries which is accepted or, regarded as essential to maintaining a person, class, or race, in his or its customary or proper status and circumstances."
What, then, is the "minimum of necessities, comforts, or luxuries" on which our standard of living can be maintained? In Christian Science is it not the abundance which Jesus established? Who has ever expressed more abundance? His abundance consisted not of material things, but of all the bounty of the kingdom of God, which he urged us to seek first. When he needed tax money, he had it. He sent Peter to find it in a fish's mouth, showing the disciples, and us, that supply may appear in ways unthought of. Where did the food for the five thousand come from? Was not this provision a sweeping lesson of necessary trust in God's provision?
