Editorial December 5, 1901 Issue

Scientists and Money

Editor

There is an impression among some outside the fold of Christian Science that Christian Scientists are a money-making people. This impression arises from the fact that Christian Scientists present the appearance of being prosperous. They are, as a class, fairly well dressed and have about them an air of sprightliness which usually pertains to people who are free from financial stress.

The conclusion is, therefore, that they make money because they are Scientists, and that they make it out of their Science work. This will bear examination.

In the first place many who come into Science are of the well-to-do class. They are not, as a rule, among the very wealthy. They, of course, are not less well off because they have become Christian Scientists. Many, nevertheless, become more liberal contributors to good purposes than formerly because, through Science, they have become awakened to a keener sense of the necessity and blessing of so doing. They lose the desire to hoard for the sake of hoarding. With the change from sense to Science there comes a change of view as to the office of money. There is a greater desire to appropriate surplus means toward helping their fellow-beings. Naturally the Cause nearest their hearts, and which they believe to be the best Cause, comes first. The fact that there is a more liberal giving than of old creates the impression that, somehow, through Science, they make more than before, and the inference is that they make it out of Science or through Science work.

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