Article April 7, 1934 Issue

Finding Our Right Place

ETHEL MUNRO GOSS

During the last few years, young people in schools, colleges, and in business life have been faced with conditions for which to human sense they were unprepared, and these conditions have changed their prospects, so that in many cases they have been unexpectedly forced to meet the problem of finding their right place and their right work in the world. To those, however, who have been taught the rules of Christian Science, this situation has presented an opportunity to prove the truth they have been taught. To those who have not had this teaching, and who are bewildered and confused by their seeming difficulties, it may be a great help to see how the Christian Scientist is meeting this problem; how he is proving that the law of divine Love annuls every cruel and unjust law invented by the carnal mind.

Thanks to the wonderful organization which our Leader has established for the purpose of helping humanity, there are many avenues through which we may learn to understand and utilize the power of divine Mind. There are our Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, lectures, periodicals, and other activities, which are presenting to the world the light of Truth; and even though we may have the loving help of parents, teacher, or practitioner, greater progress is experienced when we ourselves make a steady spiritual effort to solve our problem.

There is great satisfaction in proving things for one's self. Anyone who has successfully worked out any problem, even at the cost of hours of study, feels that he has accomplished something worth while. One who has worked hard at some difficulty in mechanics or carpentry, athletics or dressmaking, and who has triumphed over it, feels that he has learned something which before he may have known only in theory. The satisfaction is, of course, much greater when one realizes that the result has been obtained by using the intelligence which is the reflection of divine Mind, and not merely a personal possession. So when one is faced with a problem, such as finding one's right place and right work, it is helpful to approach it with the same eagerness as if it were a problem in athletics, mathematics, or dressmaking, or any other activity in which one is keenly interested.

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