How to ensure adequate and steady supply is one of the most widespread and persistent problems of human experience. It has a bearing upon every aspect of existence. Legislation does not and cannot solve the problem of lack, but may bring about an amelioration of conditions for those who suffer most severely from it. However, all systems which look to material wealth as a source of supply have an incorrect basis and cannot provide a lasting solution.
When mortals turn resolutely away from matter and strive to realize that because God is Love, the only creator, He is unceasingly bestowing every good thing on all His children, the specter of lack gradually loses its power to alarm. We read in the sixteenth chapter of Exodus that when the Israelites looked to God for their supply of food and were given manna, "he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack."
A glimpse of this blessed reality came to a student of Christian Science who was facing a difficult situation, and it showed her the way out. Through an act of human injustice she had been deprived of what had been regarded as a secure income and was seeking employment in order to support herself and her small daughter. Because she had not been trained for any specific occupation and possessed no academic honors, her family was constantly voicing doubts of her achieving her aim.
