Article October 14, 1950 Issue

"OCCUPY TILL I COME"

DOROTHY EILEEN HEYWOOD-DOVE

"Occupy till I come." This authoritative command was addressed to his ten selected servants by a nobleman embarking on a distant journey. To each of the ten was given a pound to be developed to the utmost, the proceeds to be handed over on the donor's return.

These words, "Occupy till I come," caught the interest and attention of one who suddenly found himself confronted with heavy family responsibilities. Face to face with this crisis and all the sacrifices it entailed, he recognized immediately that this emergency was, and could only be, a spiritual opportunity.

Turning eagerly to the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, he found himself scanning the parable in which these words occur (Luke 19:12–27). In the opening words of the story he perceived a message, an analogy between himself and the ten servants and their allotted tasks, as narrated by Jesus. The encouraging praise meted out by the returning nobleman to the successful worker, "Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities," was to him very impressive. Like this servant, he knew that he too must be faithful over the very little that was his present human possession.

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