Article October 30, 1926 Issue

Christian Science and Business

CLYDE D. SAMSON

Happiness sometimes would seem to be dependent upon nothing more than success in business. Mortals, accepting through common consent the curse to till the ground, have come to look upon their needs as largely material and their supply as dependent upon the successful participation in dealings involving one form or another of matter. Dealing thus in that which is limited and finite, they have decided that the supply of good is limited and finite, and subject to consequent shortage or wrong distribution. And it is indeed questionable whether any one contributing cause is as responsible for so-called physical sickness and disease as is this sense of limitation in its varied ramifications.

Such being apparently the case, the application of the practice of Christian Science to so-called business problems is deserving of the most consecrated consideration of every sincere student. Man's birthright is dominion, and nothing less can satisfy. Man's every need is always supplied by divine Love. Supply, then, is ever present and infinite. The problem is how to avail ourselves of it.

A student was once faced with a business problem that involved many phases of seeming unpleasantness as well as that of financial lack. As it was worked and prayed over through several years, gradually it yielded in various ways in so far as it seemed to involve others, and it appeared that the student's own thinking was all that remained to be healed. As he studied the many beautiful promises of peace and plenty to be found in the Bible, it was noted that in each and all the promised reward was conditional—receiving upon giving, understanding and guidance upon trust, peace upon righteousness, plentiful supply upon right desire, and so on. Praying for guidance, he was directed to page 116 of "Miscellaneous Writings," where our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us an inspired definition of obedience: "Never absent from your post, never off guard, never ill-humored, never unready to work for God,—is obedience; being 'faithful over a few things.'" The more this passage was studied, the more its application to the problem at hand unfolded.

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