ONE of the most insistent of human problems is that of employment. Even those who are not dependent on their work for their daily bread have this problem to solve. The solution of the problem often seems to be obscured because it is not always recognized that employment and supply are not necessarily interdependent; for the real purpose of employment is not primarily to earn a livelihood, but to glorify God. And God does not withhold His care and His sustaining power at any time, each individual spiritual idea being maintained without lapse throughout eternity.
In working out this problem through the application of Christian Science, the student soon finds that everything concerning employment has to be lifted out of the domain of so-called matter into the realm of Mind. Since, as Mrs. Eddy declares in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468), "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation" all real activity must be in the spiritual realm. Thus it becomes plain that all the student can do is to be constantly employed in right thinking. Whatever his work, whether it be driving an engine or plowing a field, it is thought that underlies the action. From this standpoint no one is ever out of work. If the student is thinking actively in accordance with spiritual Truth, as revealed in Christian Science, bringing "every thought to the obedience of Christ," he is bound to reap what he has sown, and this will be manifested to him in a way that meets his present human need.
The writer was once in a situation where employment seemed an imperative necessity. All the ordinary channels for obtaining work were tried, but without success. At that time there seemed to be a very general sense of scarcity of work all over the country. One day, when she was communing with divine Mind in the still morning hours, the thought came to her very clearly that she did not, in reality, have to "get a job," or take it from anyone else; that, in reality, she reflected God, and that she had only to understand that her true individuality was created and governed by God. Her work then, in reality, was her individual expression of God.
