"Plenty of employment"

E. OLIVE DAVIS

DURING those years when they must decide what sort of training to choose, and especially as they approach the end of their school days, probably all young people find themselves asking the questions: Shall I be able to find employment? What sort of business shall I enter? What vocation shall I follow? If they were to accept the world's opinions, they would seem to see at the present time many who cannot find employment, even though they are trained and experienced workmen, and still others drifting into occupations, apparently by chance, in which they find little joy or satisfaction.

Now what is the young Christian Scientist to think about this problem? Are the teachings of our Leader applicable to needs of this kind? Yes, indeed, for that divine Love which Mrs. Eddy assures us meets "every human need" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 494) can in this instance as in all others be confidently relied upon.

In all our thinking in Christian Science we are called upon to abandon generally accepted false beliefs. The history of the race shows humanity gradually advancing from savagery, where one wrested a bare living literally by the sweat of his brow, up to the present time, when he is still seeking to earn a living by some kind of labor which he believes he must find in some place. Now Christian Science teaches us that since God is Life, man—His idea—exists and is maintained by the Mind that created him. Man does not have to struggle for, or earn, the right to exist. His place in the universe is determined by the fact that God created him, and therefore man does not have to seek a place to fill. God's image is eternally fulfilling the purpose for which God created him.

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