Editorial May 3, 1947 Issue

Let Us Use Our Latent Abilities

Paul Stark Seeley

A prominent industrialist has made his business an outstanding success by getting his employees to recognize and use their latent abilities for doing more and better work. The results have made possible the paying of wages well above the general wage for this industry; production of goods has steadily increased, while their cost to consumers has steadily declined; and there have been no strikes. He has proved that latent abilities put to good use benefit all concerned.

In describing the working of this system, the industrialist by way of illustration compares an individual and his latent abilities to a pound of coal. As long as the coal is in the ground, it has only a future possibility for usefulness; so it is with an individual before he goes through some process of development. Once aboveground the coal is more likely to become useful, although it may be wasted. Individuals, too, with known talents often let them go to waste. But the coal if put into a fire makes heat; if it enters a chemical process, it may become artificial rubber; if subjected to intense heat under great pressure, it may become a diamond. And so the latent abilities of individuals develop when put to use in different ways and degrees. But the individual must consent to put to use the ability he has. It is like coal underground until he does so.

Christian Science, reasoning from the basis of God as infinite Mind and man as Mind's reflection, declares that the only real man is now expressing the ability of God. He is the individual evidence of absolute intelligence, deific Mind, and is eternally possessed of the unlimited ability inseparable from God's representative. Man is not then the limited, timid, often slothful, frustrated, incapable mortal that material sense would have us believe.

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