Article December 27, 1930 Issue

Employment

John Gerard Lord

How often does the question of employment, or the lack of it, present itself to the consciousness of the individual, either as a personal problem or as an industrial situation! Unemployment suggests idleness, bringing in its train lack, unhappiness, depression, discouragement, and often despair. How grateful is the Christian Scientist that when this belief of unemployment presents itself to his thought he is able to meet it with the spiritual understanding which destroys its claim to reality and power!

Webster defines "employment, in part, as "that which engages or occupies; ... office or post of business; service." With the spiritual insight that Christian Science gives us we may consider these definitions of employment and find therein a wealth of meaning that will destroy for us all fear of unemployment or lack of right activity.

"That which engages or occupies" the attention or thought of the student of Christian Science is the study and demonstration of the truth as taught by and exemplified in the life of the beloved Master, and later through our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. He is striving to express in his every activity, be it business, home, or social relations with his fellows, more and more of the Christ-spirit of love, honesty, truth, and unselfishness. Such pure and lofty desire requires constant mental alertness if it is to be maintained at all times and under all circumstances, and the errors of self-seeking and self-love are thereby to be kept out of his consciousness.

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