Article July 28, 1928 Issue

Position

LUKE O. TAYLOR

Webster defines the word "position" in part as follows: "Manner or way of viewing somethings; mental attitude; the ground or point of view adopted with reference to any particular subject." According to this definition, position is a mental state or condition. Mankind has long regarded position as something wholly material, as material employment or a material place. When one refers to his position in business or society, he is generally understood to mean that he occupies his position with the aid and consent of others, who occupy positions both above and below him in the same way that he occupies his. Hence we hear of positions being given as gifts, handed out as rewards, or obtained in some other of the devious ways of mortal mind.

Position is also regarded as something that may be lost or taken away at any time. Thus it is that men fear lest they be removed from their position and others be put in their place; lest business depression cause them to lose their position, or at least to be separated from it for a time. They regard their position as a material place of great uncertainty and danger, which they occupy temporarily, but from which they may be tossed at any time by circumstances which are entirely beyond their control.

Now in Christian Science we learn that all is Mind; that Mind is God; and that man is the image, idea, or reflection of Mind, God. Furthermore, we find that man occupies this position as the image, idea, or manifestation of divine Mind by virtue of his relationship to Mind. If, then, as Webster says, position is "mental attitude" or "point of view," is it not plain that our position is entirely mental, a state of mind? We thus find that not only is our position determined by our mental attitude, but our mental attitude is our only position, and our position is improved only as our attitude is rectified.

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