Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, used significant words when she spoke of the two million dollars pledged to the building of the Extension to The Mother Church as "two millions of love currency." Referring to the Christian Scientists who had pledged this amount, she said (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 14): "In the now they brought their tithes into His storehouse. Then, when this bringing is consummated, God will pour them out a blessing above the song of angels, beyond the ken of mortals—a blessing that two millions of love currency will bring to be discerned in the near future as a gleam of reality." In another address she referred to several verses in the thirty-seventh Psalm as God coin and currency (ibid., p. 170). How far removed from the usual estimate of wealth are these two statements! And how clearly they show that the Christian Science student must spiritualize his concept of supply along with all other details of human life. As he learns, slowly or quickly, that the whole basis of his thinking must be changed from matter to Spirit, he discovers that qualities of thought, and not matter, constitute supply. Matter always spells limitation. Once we get into the spiritually mental realm there is no limitation.
The subject of supply is an important one to us all, and its demonstration in Christian Science is commensurate with our understanding of what our Leader calls "love currency." The one who lives to love, lives to give, cannot be in want. The love we express will be reflected back to us in a way that will meet our human need. We need to think more of giving than of getting if we want to demonstrate supply scientifically, and the one whose heart is filled with the thought of how much he has to give will find himself sought out for his spiritual riches, which multiply as they are shared.
Should there seem to be a lack, then we can follow the Master's example in his feeding of the five thousand. There we have a perfect example of right expenditure. He used what was on hand. So if we are afraid to use what we think is our last shilling, let us put that thought behind us and use what we have, instead of withholding with the thought that we must keep a little hoard for a rainy day. If the demand is a just and right one we can use what we have and trust God to replenish our coffers.
