Article March 1, 1924 Issue

"To every man his work"

PETER B. BIGGINS

We may learn many helpful lessons from the records of the building of the tabernacle by the children of Israel. In the thirty-fifth chapter of Exodus, we read that every man and every women who was wise and willing-hearted had an opportunity to share in the building and adorning of the tabernacle. Particular interest is attached to the skilled labor of Bezaleel, whom Moses employed to work in metal, wood, and stone. He had his part to play in helping Moses to carry out the divine command to make all things according to the pattern shown to him on the mount. Bezaleel is referred to as one filled... with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship." His contribution to the building of the tabernacle is a helpful indication of the fact that whenever useful work needs to be performed, God provides the agents to do it.

There is an additional interest in the fact that in all the work which followed, as recorded in the chapter above mentioned and in the four succeeding chapters, there is not a single discordant note—only a continuous, unbroken record of constructive activity. The people were able to do their work; they had a mind to work; and they brought so freely and so willingly the supplies that were needed, that Moses had to ask them to stop bringing any more. Finally, we read in the last verse of the thirty-ninth chapter this fitting tribute to the obedience and worthy work of those early spiritual heroes: "And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it: and Moses blessed them."

When Jesus was explaining to his followers the signs of the establishment of the kingdom of Christ on earth, he put forth this helpful parable, as recorded in the thirteenth chapter of Mark: "The Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch." There is an ever recurring freshness in this parable, in the light of Christian Science, wherein we see that Christ, Truth, gives to each one the work for which he is best suited, the work which contributes to the enjoyment of universal harmony.

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