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"Help Wanted"
ONE of the false beliefs that would try to deceive is that man is out of his place or can be displaced, and that when he is so displaced, or misplaced, he is in need of another place. Particularly is this the claim as to employment in human experience; and so prevalent is the belief at times that it seems very real to the one working to disprove it. Christian Science shows that for anything to be a blessing to one it must be a blessing to all; and, further, to be a blessing at all it must be impelled from a right motive. So, then, should one find himself without what is called "a place of employment," he need not be fearful; for if he is striving to follow faithfully and to demonstrate Christian Science in the degree that he understands it, he can with assurance and confidence realize that each experience is another opportunity to prove what he has learned.
A student who was trying to learn and practice Christian Science was faced with the problem of finding a place of employment. Having done all he knew how to do mentally, and although he had taken many human footsteps in trying to find work, he again turned to the want advertisements of the daily newspaper of the city where he was located, thinking he might find there that of which he was in search. As there seemed to be no result from this effort, he did some additional thinking; and he then saw his mistake, and why he had had no result. At the head of the column, in large type, were the words "Help Wanted." These employers had paid to advertise the fact that they needed help to carry on their businesses, and they needed it sufficiently to take this method of informing others.
This student had been so busy trying to get help for himself that he had forgotten that to receive help himself he must render service or help to others. Awakened from his mistake, he started out to see where his services might be needed; and a place of employment was found at once. He realized that we are all God's children, and are all working for Him, helping each other, whether we are aware of it or not. He whom he called "employer," was in reality a fellow workman, and he was not so much working for this person as with him; and the whole concern, rendering a service to humanity, was functioning harmoniously.
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October 15, 1927 issue
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True Brotherhood
HELEN FRIEND ROBINSON
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Cause and Effect
BERTHOLD BLOCK
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Pure Affection
DOROTHY DYRENFORTH-LUMAN
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Full Salvation
TESSIE ELLIOT
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"Help Wanted"
EARL A. RUSSELL
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"The knowledge of the Lord"
ISABEL A. RUSSUM
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The Lesson-Sermon
EARL L. DAVIS
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In a recent issue of the Globe an article entitled "Caught...
Arthur E. Blainey, Committee on Publication for the Province of Ontario, Canada,
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A recent issue of your paper contains an account of an...
W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,
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In a recent issue of your paper a writer states, in substance,...
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
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Permit me to answer some statements made in your recent...
Philip King, Committee on Publication for the District of Columbia,
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In his "swan song" in a recent issue the former acting...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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Will you kindly allow me space in your paper for the...
Mrs. Emma Ljunglöf, Committee on Publication for Sweden,
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In your notice of Dr. Macfie Campbell's book on "Delusion and Belief"...
Mrs. Agnata F. Butler, Committee on Publication for Cambridgeshire, England,
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Wash Thou My Feet
UNA ROSAMOND LIAS
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Manna
Albert F. Gilmore
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The Knowledge that Satisfies
Ella W. Hoag
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Humanity's Helper
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from Howard E. Herron
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I awoke one night about five years ago with a very bad...
Aage Steenstrup
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Ten years ago I first began the study of Christian Science
Leota Edytha St. John
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When I was a college freshman I had my first direct contact...
Helen Ludlow Jacoby
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It is about fifteen years since I took up the study of...
Angeline R. Uller
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My wife and I had both become so discontented with the...
Hermann Heidbrink
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It was three and a half years ago that I became interested...
Mattie Lavertu with contributions from Joseph Lavertu
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Because the reading of testimonies in the periodicals...
Gertie Knight
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I Will Not Doubt
REUBEN POGSON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from James Reid, George B. Cliff, H. D. Ranns, H. C. Culbertson, Viscountess Curzon