Article September 12, 1931 Issue

Employment

MARION S. KELLY

EMPLOYMENT or business being for most people the human means whereby the law of supply and demand is worked out in everyday life, there is, perhaps, no thought more prominent in the minds of mortals, along the lines of material living, than that of lucrative employment. Too often, however, fear and acceptance of the universal belief of unrest, business recession, unemployment, or baneful competition are taken into consciousness to such an extent that the true spiritual sense of what constitutes real employment is lost, sometimes with an apparent result of failure or inactivity. Christian Science teaches that the only true occupation man can ever be engaged in is that of reflecting God; and as God is omniactive and omnipresent, man as His reflection can never in reality be unemployed or manifest a sense of failure, lack, or idleness.

Man, created in the image and likeness of God, bears very much the same relation to God as a ray of light does to the sun. We cannot imagine one of the sun's rays becoming detached and inactive. While the sun shall continue to shine, each ray will have its own necessary work to perform. So it is that man, the idea of God, the image and likeness of Spirit, is employed every moment in reflecting his great primal cause, God.

On page 470 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, writers, "Man is the expression of God's being;" and again she states (ibid., p. 258), "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis." Therefore, business or employment should be our highest sense of expressing God in the daily life. When employment is viewed from this standpoint, there can be no failure or retrograde steps.

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