Article January 29, 1938 Issue

Man's True Business

ETHEL WASGATT DENNIS

Ever since the doom was pronounced upon Adam, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," mortals, generally speaking, have been bowed beneath a supposed curse on work. This material belief has hindered progress in unnumbered directions, and has been the cause of untold suffering and failure.

In spite of the Bible injunction, "Let us not be weary in well doing," many of even the most consecrated efforts for world betterment have been hampered, and sometimes completely nullified, by this misinterpretation of work. How much the world owes to Christian Science for its clear, spiritual teaching that man, God's own image and likeness, never shared in the condemnation of Adam, the material counterfeit of man!

Work, then, as understood in Christian Science, is seen as a spontaneous and natural part of each one's experience. This Science removes the false concepts which have veiled the true nature of work, and reveals the wonderful truth that, since God is the ever-acting Principle, or Mind, man's real work or business is to reflect the harmonious and unlabored action of the one divine Mind. On page 183 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy says, "Man is God's image and likeness; whatever is possible to God, is possible to man as God's reflection." For that which is accomplished by reflection, there is no resultant discord or exhaustion. One cannot conceive of God's image becoming weary or heavy laden, since man uses, not so-called material strength, but that of the original, which he faithfully represents.

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