IN the ceaseless struggle of material existence, humanity seems to spend most of its time endeavoring to make its way in the world. Those who have to work for their living, as the saying is, are often anxiously engaged in finding a position; or, having found one to their liking, they may live in constant fear of losing it, well knowing that in overcrowded vocations others are awaiting the opportunity to step into any vacancy. Even where the necessity of earning one's daily bread is not present, many are striving to attain a different position in life. Again, there are those whose lives seem to be cramped and narrowed by their environment, yet who have apparently no capacity to extricate themselves from the circumstances which surround them.
The teaching of Christian Science gives the key to the solution of all such situations, through uncovering the seeming causes underlying these conditions. Through her clear statement of the indestructible relationship between God and man, Mrs. Eddy has given us a basis for demonstration; and in endeavoring to work out any problem concerning environment or position we need to be radical in our reliance upon the truth, and to see that, despite all material seeming, the real man exists as the spiritual idea of God, divine Mind, infinite Love; and that our true activity and employment are to be found in understanding and expressing divine Love.
Now the reason why it seems difficult to take this radical stand is that the human so-called mind is always thinking about itself, is always clamoring to be heard. Sometimes it speaks through pride and self-assertion; at other times self-pity and self -justification are its mouthpiece; but in one form or another it will always be found arguing for mortal selfhood and material environment, for injustice, unhappiness, inequality, and lack as real. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 104 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "Clothed, and in its right Mind, man's individuality is sinless, deathless, harmonious, eternal. His materiality, clad in a false mentality, wages feeble fight with his individuality,—his physical senses with his spiritual senses. The latter move in God's grooves of Science: the former revolve in their own orbits, and must stand the friction of false selfhood until self-destroyed."
