Article October 10, 1903 Issue

Consecrating our Lives to God

L. B. C.

Dayton (O.) Herald

To consecrate is to set apart as sacred. Jesus said, "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." The Apostle Paul said, "Present your bodies a living sacrifice."

To consecrate our lives to God includes our means and our business, whatever our vocation may be. It is conducting business on the basis of the Golden Rule, a strictly honest and just standard, no false measures or misrepresentations. A practical consecration of our lives to God in the business world is illustrated in the method adopted by a business man who became a Christian Scientist and instructed his clerks to sell goods just as they are, "cotton for cotton, and wool for wool, else let them perish on the shelves." Since adopting this fundamental basis for his business his sales have increased.

Another business man, whose wife was healed in Christian Science of a very serious illness, informed me that he began to investigate the subject and commenced to conduct his business on its basis, pursuing a higher course of honesty, and as a result his business has increased and never was as satisfactory as at present.

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