Article December 14, 1940 Issue

On Choosing a Career in Christian Science

[Written Especially for Young People]

FLORENCE IRENE GUBBINS

Young people who have just left their years of schooling behind them, naturally have their thoughts much occupied with the question of choosing a career, if they have not already trained for some particular line of work.

Many times it seems that considerations of a financial nature interfere with one's choosing a career according to one's inclinations, but if one has had the advantage of training in a Christian Science Sunday School he will know how to meet this situation through the truth he has been taught. In his case the future is viewed not merely from the standpoint of earning a living, but of how he can best reflect God, infinite good, as the only intelligence and substance. Mary Baker Eddy says on page 375 of "Miscellaneous Writings," "The truest art of Christian Science is to be a Christian Scientist; and it demands more than a Raphael to delineate this art."

Nothing prevented Jesus of Nazareth from demonstrating the infinity of good. On one occasion, as recorded in John's Gospel, "Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; ... took a towel, and girded himself ... and began to wash the disciples' feet." And the Master, speaking of his lifework, said, "I am among you as he that serveth." So, the keynote of any worthy career must be that of service, whether it be cooking, housekeeping, community work, politics, or any other profession. The question to ask oneself is, Whom am I serving? As Christian Scientists, our need is to serve God, and to see man as spiritual. Then, the first service we owe to our fellows is to see their true selfhood rightly, from the standpoint of spiritual reality, as the image of God.

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