Article September 23, 1944 Issue

Everyone's Work Shall Be Made Manifest

ELIZABETH M. HARDESTY

In the recent Fortune survey of postwar problems it was evident that the question of preventing unemployment after the war was considered the most important by a sizable margin. Governmental agencies, employers, and groups of civic-minded citizens are already working towards a satisfactory solution of the problem. However, it is an individual problem, and cannot be worked out on a permanent basis until each individual works it out for himself, under the law of God.

When we consider God's creation, could anyone, even though not a student of Christian Science, think that our all-wise Father-Mother God created man without a definite plan for him? Would He separate man from that plan and leave him in idleness, without activity, without sustenance and protection? No! God's entire creation is one of orderly unfoldment. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 475) Mary Baker Eddy tells us that "man is idea, the image, of Love." She adds, "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas." Man was created for the honor and glory of God, to image forth His qualities, according to His law.

God, our loving Father-Mother, is the one and only creator. He made everything that was made; He created man in His image and likeness and gave him dominion. God needs man to express Himself. God's image and likeness, man, is perfect and complete. Each and every spiritual idea of God's creating is needed and useful, created for a purpose, and is essential to the Father's wise plan. Each one has definite work to do, and "every man's work shall be made manifest." This truth can be a practical comfort, at this time, when much, fear is expressed concerning the returning serviceman and the postwar period. No matter what mortal mind says concerning times and places, circumstances or conditions, man can never actually be without employment, because always he actively expresses God, good. There is but one business, the Father's business, and it is the activity of good, which man expresses and reflects.

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