Editorial January 10, 1976 Issue

A Place for Everyone

Naomi Price

On the classroom wall of a school hung a well-worn placard. Successive generations of pupils had read the motto printed on it, but, confided one veteran teacher, as far as she knew, few had paid attention to its message. Its purpose was to encourage tidiness and it read, "A place for everything, and everything in its place."

But one pupil evidently had taken more notice than she or the teacher had realized. She was surprised, a few years later, when she found herself thinking about the text, and as she did so, she realized it reminded her of a spiritual truth she had recently learned through her study of Christian Science: that in God's universe there's a place for everyone, and everyone is in his place.

At the time, this was the opposite of what seemed to be the case in her office. But as she held this spiritual truth in thought, within a few days the situation was corrected. The individual who seemed to be in the wrong position was quite naturally moved to another that suited her much better, and everyone concerned was relieved.

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