Article December 24, 1979 Issue

Working under pressure?

KATHERINE JANE HILDRETH

"This job is getting me down," I muttered. "I've got to get out from under this pressure!"

I once found myself saying this regularly—not only under my breath but to anyone who would listen. As I saw it, my job was too demanding, a frustrating combination of tasks for which there was never enough time. I either had to find a way to reduce the pressure or quit.

Then I looked up "pressure" in the Concordance to Mrs. Eddy's writings and found that her only reference to the subject was not as something one must get out from under, but live under—constantly. She writes, "Christian Scientists must live under the constant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate."^{Science and Health, p. 451;}