Article February 11, 1933 Issue

Doing Your Own Work

[Written Especially for Young People]

FLORA A. WATERBURY

Included in one of the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons was the verse from Paul's letter to the Galatians: "Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another."

We know that those pupils in school who rely primarily on the exercise of such qualities as perseverance, alertness, and industry are the best students, for they are giving forth the fruits of their own labor. They are the ones who can be depended upon to carry out whatever is given them to do, whether it is in class work, student-body work, or other activity of school life. Such students are being guided by "justice, mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on," which, Mrs. Eddy says on page 465 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," are "the attributes of God." Thus they are laying a foundation upon which to stand, like the "wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock."

On the other hand, the student who relies chiefly upon others to do his work for him does not experience real joy and happiness, because his work is not based upon the qualities of the divine Mind, but upon those of the so-called carnal mind, such as selfishness, impatience, discouragement, fear, and doubt. He may, therefore, be likened unto the "foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."

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