Editorial March 5, 1938 Issue

Finding and Holding a Position

Violet Ker Seymer

On page 254 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Individuals are consistent who, watching and praying, can 'run, and not be weary; ... walk, and not faint,' who gain good rapidly and hold their position, or attain slowly and yield not to discouragement."

Finding a position, as understood in Christian Science, entails, first of all, finding out what position really means and adjusting one's thought-processes accordingly. Gaining a position is not to be regarded as finding an occupation, filling a post. Primarily, it represents one's mental status and outlook. For this reason, finding a position calls for more than the blind faith by which a human being looks to a personal God for personal guidance, irrespective of his uncorrected fears and failings.

Christian Science imparts to the one who seeks its aid in finding a position the way of intelligent, faithful co-operation. Many a one seeking a position handicaps himself by his own thinking. He may be hypercritical and indulge in rankling envy. He is wont to deplore business fluctuations, prejudice, favoritism, governmental whims, commercial complications, the many slips "between the cup and the lip." This state of thought represents what Paul calls "the carnal mind." And since "as he thinketh in his heart, so is he," the student of Christian Science who would make his way successfully and find the opportunity to serve his fellows, must rise mentally above these thankless false beliefs. He must take up his true mental position as God's witness. Then he will see himself and his prospects in a new light.

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