Article September 23, 1933 Issue

Place and Opportunity

[Written Especially for Young People]

RUTH LENORE GRUHLKE

One of the problems facing the newly graduated student at this time is that regarding place and opportunity. To many the first thought is one of discouragement, a feeling of hopelessness that they are entering a field already overcrowded with experienced men and women. These young people may be tempted to run in every direction, without reason or forethought, with a vain hope that they may chance upon good fortune. Or they may give power to the erroneous statements of mortal mind which proclaim lack of place, lack of opportunity, lack of supply, and so allow themselves to be mesmerized into inactivity. But the Christian Science student knows how to solve this problem. He wastes no time in listening to the suggestions of the tempter. He knows his real identity as a child of God, endowed with dominion, and he humbly bows before infinite Love to receive guidance, that he may demonstrate his God-given heritage.

One need not depend upon mere human influence and assistance. Jesus never did; but neither did he sit back and expect to work out his life-purpose merely by talking and thinking about it. He was active about his Father's business when he was a good carpenter, before the period of his public ministry. So it is with the Christian Science student. In his years of preparation at high school and college he may have glimpsed the fact that he was employed only in God's business; and he is still in that loving employment. There is therefore no bewildering change or readjustment to be made in his efforts. Man is ever operating in his rightful place according to a perfect plan, which is being unfolded continually to him; and he can never be cast adrift from the unerring guidance of the all-knowing divine Mind. The very fact of the existence of man as an idea of infinite Mind places him in his proper relation to all other ideas. This continuously harmonious manifestation of man is absolutely essential to the right government of God and the universe, for Principle is one and All.

The student may well regard his present experience as a test of what he has learned while in school. He knows that when he first enrolled in high school or college he selected a certain course in which to specialize, but upon studying the various requirements of that course he found many subjects that were not directly connected with his chosen field. Yet as he advanced, how often these very subjects which had seemed entirely foreign proved to be the ones that gave him the needed understanding to grasp the problems presented in his specialized study! The young man or woman recently graduated may have been trained to fill a certain position. The very fact that he has been led to study along certain lines may mean that his pure thinking and unselfish desire to serve are needed right now to solve the problems in his particular field; and surely nothing can interfere with his proper placement.

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