Article December 20, 1900 Issue

What Christian Science teaches Business Men

BY EDMUND C. MOULTON.

As I am one of the many men who are trying to shape their affairs by Christian Science, to be guided by its teachings, I believe it my duty to give my experience in coming in personal contact with merchants, lawyers, bankers, manufacturers, railroad men, salesmen, bookkeepers, policemen, conductors, firemen, or day laborers. I have met and associated with men of the various callings I have named, who dare take Christ into their every-day lives and are happy to say that they are followers of the teachings of Christian Science. I have seen them in the church, at their homes, and in their business, and they have taught me that false pride is put away' that vicious temper has been overcome; morbid appetite destroyed; that Truth has taken the place of dishonesty; and that they are trying to live as pure and wholesome men. No more are they advocates of a single code of morals for women, and another for men, but they expect the clean thoughts and virtuous lives in their fellow-men.

These are the things I have found among Christian Science business men both in the country and in the towns or large cities; and the heartfelt right hand of fellowship that is always extended tells me that the love of their brother man is uppermost in their thoughts. Furthermore, they tell me that in business transactions where in the old way they would run about for advice or to borrow money, they now depend on divine Principle as their source of supply, and guide, and if they stand firm in the Truth they are never disappointed. Can I hold up anything more tempting as an example to the world of business? Ask any of these men, if they could sell, what would they take for this understanding, and they invariably shake their heads, for they have given up much they once thought they could not do without and gained "The pearl of great price."

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