Article May 15, 1948 Issue

WHAT IS OUR CAREER?

HAROLD EDWARDS SUTTON

Recent political and economic events have had their effects in the remotest corners of the earth, and thousands of people have seen the course of their lives changed, their planned careers swept aside by the necessity for rendering services of an entirely different character from that which they had planned or hoped for. For some, fresh fields of endeavor offering wider scope have opened. For others the future may seem full of uncertainty and insecurity.

To all, the teachings of Christian Science sound a clarion call of hope and certainty. In "Miscellaneous Writings" our Leader says (p. 173): "If God is Mind and fills all space, is everywhere, matter is nowhere and sin is obsolete. If Mind, God, is all-power and all-presence, man is not met by another power and presence, that—obstructing his intelligence—pains, fetters, and befools him. The perfection of man is intact; whence, then, is something besides Him that is not the counterpart but the counterfeit of man's creator? Surely not from God, for He made man in His own likeness." God is good. God is All. God is omnipotent. Man, created by the Word of God, in the image and likeness of his Maker, as the first chapter of Genesis informs us, cannot do other than reflect God— that is, express his creator. Therefore man, the only real man, is spiritual and Godlike, and for him good and good only is assured.

Inquirers turn to Christian Science as a result of varying needs— lack of health, unsatisfied aspirations, release from want, and the like; but progressive study soon reveals that the teachings of this Science are far more than a remedy, or the satisfaction of an unfulfilled desire, or the solution of a problem. Inevitably the realization comes that the sincere endeavor to reflect God, to prove themselves God's children, is a whole-time job—a career. To be Godlike is, in fact, the most worth-while career. It is a whole-time job, for mortal mind constantly asserts the lie that man is not Godlike, that he is not good, that evil is inescapable, and that man is fighting a losing battle against sin, disease, and death.

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