Article March 26, 1921 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from M. Clemenceau, Hugh Black, Barbara Wooton, Corry

The Christian Science Monitor

["Employment"—The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, U.S.A., Feb. 5, 1921]

To realize what true employment is destroys forever the fear of unemployment. There can be no fear of inactivity when one perceives that man as the image of Mind, God, reflects Principle. It is only when reasoning is reduced to the level of matter that the arguments of progress in industry, changing occupation due to changing world demands and various other economic conditions, can claim to deprive workers of their employment. The understanding in Christian Science that man's real employment is in right knowing opens at once the way of liberation, for right knowing or the activity of the one infinite intelligence is unceasing in its operation and manifestation. Unemployment is unknown to omnipresent Mind, and, therefore, likewise unknown to man, the image and likeness of Mind.

Legislative protection of trade never creates employment. Since it is a quality of Mind, employment can never be assured to the individual by acts of Parliament or statutory regulations, for any narrowing process that deals with employment as an end to be achieved at the sacrifice of others is doomed to failure. Personal and national points of view must be eliminated in favor of the viewpoint of Principle which provides equal opportunity for all mankind. Inasmuch as the one reliable corrective is to establish for the individual the certain knowledge that man is always and forever employed in reflecting Principle, the problem of unemployment cannot be solved by dealing with the outward phases of the situation. Employment is the individual demonstration of the activity of Principle.

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