Article July 1, 1939 Issue

"A good assignment"

[Written Especially for Young People]

TERESE ROSE NAGEL

The work to which a newspaper reporter is detailed is known as an assignment. Should the reporter be pleased with the task, he is prone to call it "a good assignment." He then sets out to gather the news and to turn in a satisfactory and well-written report. If the work which falls to him seems to be dull and uninteresting, he may name it "a poor assignment." He should, however, go about each activity with vitality, zest, and vigor, in order that his work as a reporter may be improved.

How helpful it is to those engaged in any activity, be it in school or in business, to concern themselves with the true nature of their work, that of service to their fellow men! What is the assignment before us? Is the round of daily duties all that we have to consider? Is it merely the physical activity in which we engage? Or is it the joyous realization of spiritual achievement in everything we undertake?

Mary Baker Eddy, in a message to a branch church, gave this benediction (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 197): "God will bless the work of your hearts and hands." Our work, then, is blessed as we spiritualize our concept of activity and rise to higher tasks and holier work. Our real work is to reflect the Father, who bestows only good on His children.

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