WHETHER as an individual or a world problem, unemployment is not taken lightly in Christian Science; but hopelessness is excluded from it and the way is opened for overcoming it altogether, in proportion as this Science is understood.
Christian Science clearly shows that employment is not limited in quantity; that it does not depend on conditions beyond one's control; that it is not even dependent, primarily, on favorable answers from those from whom jobs or orders may be sought. It shows it to be dependent on a manner of thinking, and that this manner of thinking is available for everyone. It is common human experience that certain mental characteristics virtually insure employment. Scattered all through society are persons so resourceful and dependable, so skilled in seeing what needs to be done and how to do it, that they could scarcely be found unemployed. The great boon of Christian Science in this regard is its absolute assurance that the characteristics necessary to satisfactory employment are demonstrable not only by a few, but by all.
Man, Mrs. Eddy has written, in referring to the real, spiritual man, is "the full representation of Mind" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 591). He manifests all its qualities. The resourcefulness, wisdom, steadiness, strength, love, and inspiration of Mind, God, spiritual man expresses perfectly; and in expressing them he is perfectly employed. He enjoys forever the usefulness and security, the progress, and the profound peace and joy that attend perfect employment.
