In the dislocations of a wartime economy numerous individuals have changed from congenial vocations to unfamiliar and perhaps monotonous or hazardous tasks. Christian Scientists who are called upon to make these trying adjustments will not need the mesmeric appeal and support of popular catchwords and slogans, but will turn instead to their knowledge of the truth of being, and, in its practical application to present needs, gain a higher concept of employment.
Employment, spiritually considered, is not primarily a physical or an intellectual process, but is the activity of man's real selfhood. Man is in truth the image and likeness of God, the beloved of the Father, the heir of the heavenly kingdom. He lives at the standpoint of opportunity and right activity, possessing through reflection all the joys and satisfactions of life. Man is not a struggling mortal, making efforts, frequently futile, to obtain things outside himself, but he is the compound idea of divine Mind, including the right idea of home, supply, happiness—the substance of all for which mortals hope and strive.
Let us consider just how this absolute spiritual knowledge operates in human affairs. From the standpoint of logical human reasoning it must be admitted that every human activity has its inception in thought, and that one's experience is what his consciousness embraces. But whereas the materialist believes that thoughts are the products of human brains, and that there are certain conditions over which they have no control, Christian Science affirms that all true thought proceeds from the one divine Mind and is capable of obliterating here and now all that is limited, fearsome, and discordant.
