Article December 19, 1925 Issue

Business

F. HAROLD RICHARDS

BUSINESS is of universal interest. It often absorbs most of the time of the individual, and almost every one is connected in some way with it. Activity which plays such an important part in human life should surely receive careful thought. Is it not important, therefore, that each of us should gain the right concept of what our business should be?

The employee may regard his work as a drudgery which is performed only to avoid starvation, his business meaning unwilling work done in exchange for money—nothing more. The employer may look at his occupation just as a means of getting a living, with scarcely a thought of what he is putting into it; in which case, the acquiring of material possessions is the end towards which his every effort is bent, and when this object is secured, he considers himself a man of substance.

When it is realized that, as Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468), "Substance is that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay," men will cease to regard material wealth as the measure of success. They will then see that the real value of work depends upon the extent of the knowledge of God, good, expressed, and real service rendered to our fellow-men will partake of this quality of our thought.

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