God's boundlessness is the measure of man's opportunity. His infinity is the source of man's sufficiency. No lack, restriction, mediocrity, or frustration belongs to the child of God, who holds in his reflection of God every perfection, confidence, and abundance.

The real man's resources are not limited, but infinite; not meager, but plentiful; not spasmodic and uncertain, but invariable and always available. His resources are not material and perishable, but spiritual, and beyond the possibility of destruction or depletion.

These absolute, spiritual facts may be proved practical today in whatever human activity we find ourselves. Let us refuse to admit or consent to the persistent belief that there can be any good lacking in our experience. Man possesses, by reflection, all there is of God, and we utilize, as fast as we realize it, our God-given spiritual capacity. A positive realization that there is no limitation of good, will hasten an approximation of that truth in human experience. The false belief of life in matter includes the belief in limitation.

To the student of Christian Science an increasing knowledge of God as infinite Spirit means an increasing freedom from belief in limitation. The closer one draws to Spirit, in his thinking, the farther he withdraws from belief in lack. God is, and always has been, the source of man's supply. The source has not diminished. Mind is, and always has been, the source of man's ability and opportunity and success. And Mind does not change.

Jesus saw that he must be about the Father's business—that of expressing Mind. There is but one Mind. There are no diverse interests and divergent aims in Mind. And the real man and the real man's business are governed by the one Mind. True supply is present, spiritually mental changeless, and is unaffected by the passing of years. It is of God. It is for man.

The student of Christian Science seeks to apply all these truths in his everyday business. In this human activity, in order to achieve success, he must meet the claims of competition, contest, difficulty, and fear of failure. He needs to see clearly that he is struggling to overcome universal and impersonal arguments of failure, fear, deficient ability, and unsupplied needs. These unrealities, not people, are his competitors. They are competing with good for possession of his consciousness, and thus of his human experience.

Men sometimes feel that they are being held down and thwarted by a person or a group of persons; that they are deprived of their rightful place by injustice, partiality, politics, or jealousy. Actually, no person or persons have anything to do with deciding one's destiny or providing his supply. In Science, each one is entirely dependent, not on mortals or any mortal institution, but on God, for, as Paul says, "Our sufficiency is of God."

We do not need great wealth or human prominence. But we do need willingness to rely on God, and to be led of Him to our right place. The glorious, absolute fact is that to the real man there are no wasted talents, no unused abilities. As we know this, we find the gates to greater giving opening to us here and now. Losing self in enthusiastic service, we gain a sure measure of success, in our one great business of expressing God.

Although the spiritual fact is that abundance and activity are ever present, it has seemed hidden from mankind. We need to express God's qualities, through which His law may enter and govern our experience. Integrity is one of these qualities. Others are love, humility, dominion, intelligence, and industry; while dishonesty, hate, envy, egotism, laziness, and self-seeking are false qualities, which exclude themselves from the protection of God's laws.

There is no reality in malpractice, aggressive suggestion, or any other phase of animal magnetism. The only real activity is spiritual. But because false propaganda and mental manipulation seem to be present, with their arguments of obstruction and failure, the Christian Scientist must know that their craftiness cannot delude him. If men were persistently knowing the presence of but one guiding and adequate Mind, of but one invariable source of supply; if they were always praying to be delivered from every blinding lie and every deceiving evil influence, they would overcome these harmful activities. The unreality, called evil, claims to befog intentions, reverse motives, separate interests, part friends, and weaken courage. Thus proof of the teaching of Christian Science, that all evil is unreal and therefore to be destroyed by good, is of vital importance to the world.

Reliance on divine guidance, consecrated understanding, clear vision, and fearlessness to stand by that vision are our needs. We must keep personality, apprehension, materiality, selfishness, and weakness out of thought, so that evil cannot use these errors through which to enter our consciousness. Thinking the thoughts which come from infinite intelligence, the one Mind, repels and excludes the befogging manipulations of error.

The real man is never the object of hateful thinking, of limitation, loss, and failure; he is the object of God's love. He is never the object of underhandedness, condemnation, suspicion, or persecution, but always the object of the affluent kindness and care of his heavenly Father. Realization and demonstration of this spiritual fact afford the only security.

True income is the constant coming into one's consciousness of divine Mind's unlimited ideas of inspiration, of plenty, of utility, of intelligence and activity, of sincerity, and of unselfish helpfulness. That being true, no one can, scientifically speaking, provide income for another. Ultimately, each individual must himself come into conscious unity with God's government; into right, industrious, and vigorous activity; into an individual realization of abundance, expectancy, and employment. True income, the world cannot give or take away.

In the good business of expressing Mind, supply will always be found to equal demand, neither of which ever fluctuates. Thus we can know that we have no heavy obligations which cannot be rightly met. Our one obligation at all times is to manifest Principle, in right qualities, such as honesty, reliability, alertness of perception, resourcefulness, and enterprising initiative. That is not a heavy obligation due at certain times, but a normal obligation due at all times.

In his proving of opportunity and sufficiency, the student of Christian Science knows that he must at all times maintain a standard quite different from that of the world. He recognizes that he needs no aids from evil to get that which is his, that he cannot descend to unprincipled habits and practices and expect to profit by them. Without self-righteousness, with wisdom and fearless friendliness, he exhibits the attractive, spiritual qualities of assured and steadfast adherence to Principle, and succeeds where lower methods fail.

Relying on God, one knows he is always facing opportunity, never disaster. For him the doors to increased usefulness and unfolding advancement are always open. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, referring to the "eternal unity of man and God," says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 77): "This is the Father's great Love that He hath bestowed upon us, and it holds man in endless Life and one eternal round of harmonious being. It guides him by Truth that knows no error, and with super-sensual, impartial, and unquenchable Love."

Let us pray that this guiding Love shall so clarify our thinking, purify our desires, and sanctify our lives that we may know we are now in the presence of limitless good, and that all our expectancy and sufficiency is of good. Then shall we find business success to be the fruitful and intelligent expression of divine Mind, of affluent Love, ever more fully and freely and variously manifested.

We can see all we need of these spiritual facts today, and more and more through endless tomorrows, until eternity and infinity are seen as one glorious opportunity—the opportunity of expressing God perfectly.

Copyright, 1939, by The Christian Science Publishing Society, One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Entered at Boston post office as second-class matter. Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized on July 11, 1918.