Many wide-awake young people, who have seen the teachings of Christian Science proved, are endeavoring effectively to practice this religion. Aware in some degree of the value of a scientific concept of existence, and sincerely striving to live in accord with it, they are setting aside many an "Impossible!" as they go forward in spiritual understanding. As he sets out to assume new responsibilities, it is a keen young thinker who keynotes his endeavors with the spirit of Mary Baker Eddy's statement from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 180), "When man is governed by God, the ever-present Mind who understands all things, man knows that with God all things are possible."
One young student of Christian Science withdrew from college at the beginning of her junior year and took a position in an advertising agency. In talking with a friend about her new undertaking, she wryly described herself as a "glorified office boy." The position was lowly and afforded very little remuneration compared with the prestige and ample salaries of her associates, but it provided one outstanding opportunity. The nature of the work was such that she was able to observe copy writers, layout men, and artists at work and could learn much about the relationship of the newspaper to the advertiser, all of which added to the fund of knowledge which she would need when she too might be on the production end of the advertising profession.
Although surrounded by individuals of talent and superior ability, she found the environment to be varnished with shallow sophistication and overlaid with conversation of questionable taste. Resisting the mesmeric suggestion that it might be good policy to drift along with this current, which must, inevitably, carry her away from the standards that she had set up for herself, she consciously strove to maintain an attitude of straightforward simplicity and spiritual receptivity.
