Article January 7, 1961 Issue

The Used Talent

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

NATALIE G. FORCE

While resting from a session of practice at a golf range, I watched a young man who made two excellent drives with absolutely no indication of golf form. Thinking of the scientific means through which most players achieve such distance, I continued to look on with amazement. Then it became evident that the young man's casual method was getting haphazard results. The balls were flying off at different tangents, and, out of a bucketful, only a few matched the distance of the first two. This incident illustrates what we see repeated in all departments of living—the failure to use inherent abilities intelligently.

Christian Science shows that any true talent is an expression of the infinite, divine intelligence and is therefore free from the false sense of a personal endowment with all its limitations and frustrations. The Bible says, "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17). These perfect gifts are not humanly seen in their completeness, but we demonstrate them in ever increasing degree through the understanding and practice of the Science of man's being.

The young Christian Scientist who is trying to determine the nature of his abilities and to find his place in the world can be spared uncertainties and mistakes if he will recognize the true source of talent and seek the means of developing it under divine guidance. When one acknowledges that God, the one perfect Mind, is man's Mind, thought becomes more alert and expansive, and human skills and modes of expression are understood better and practiced with increasing freedom.

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