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EMPLOYMENT IS ALWAYS OBTAINABLE

From the December 1958 issue of The Christian Science Journal


ANYONE thinking of employment does well to consider the statement made by Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 118), "Be of good cheer; the warfare with one's self is grand; it gives one plenty of employment, and the divine Principle worketh with you,―and obedience crowns persistent effort with everlasting victory."

True employment might be thought of as the effort one makes to demonstrate true consciousness, which is eternally filled with good. It is one's effort to prove that man reflects love, intelligence, joy, integrity, peace, and to maintain one's confident recognition of God's power to supply all that is humanly needed every moment. This employment is always available right where we are. We do not have to search for it. There is plenty of work to be done at any period of human experience.

Christ Jesus spoke of true employment when he said (Matt. 6:31-33): "Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?... For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

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