Article July 6, 1946 Issue

Our Only Job

ROBERT PAUL HUNGATE

A Young student of Christian Science serving with the armed forces went to a Wartime Minister for help. When asked what his trouble was he replied, "I don't like my work because I am not suited to the kind of work I am doing." He then explained that his work was made still more unpleasant by the people with whom he had to associate, both during the day and in his living quarters.

The Wartime Minister at once referred the young man to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 475): "Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique." A few lines farther on she continues her definition of man by describing him as "that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker." Immediately the young soldier began to see that as a student of Christian Science his most important job and in reality his only job, was to reflect God.

The next few days following his talk with the Wartime Minister were days of joyful unfoldment; for as he put into practice this idea of working only to reflect God and to manifest love in all his actions, he began to like his Army job, and his associates became pleasant and co-operative. This demonstration over what appeared to be an inharmonious condition was made by the realization that it is man's nature to express God, not half or part of the time, but all of the time. In other words, man is the continual reflection of his creator.

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