In the changing world of today people in many lands are concerned with the problem of incentives. So governments and associations of employers and employed turn to the consideration of how best to provide the incentive which will persuade the individual to do his duty, his job, honestly, faithfully, joyously. Christian Science offers the logical solution to this problem just as to any other. From the standpoint of the basic truth that God is Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love, all-powerful and ever present, and that man is the image and likeness of perfect God, this Science makes clear that man never fails to have the incentive to reflect God; he cannot possibly lack it.
Man is eternally reflecting the goodness, integrity, and ability which are inherent in God's being. He is always reflecting all those qualities included in loving one's neighbor as oneself. Then how can one hate or be suspicious of his neighbor, when both really express, reflect, God, who is Love? The understanding of these truths regarding man keeps one from any tendency to fail in his duty to his neighbor or withhold his part in a co-operative effort, for there is no room for suspicion, hate, or lack of incentive in Love.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes under the marginal heading "Love the incentive" (p. 454): "Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action."
