Article March 23, 1929 Issue

Abiding Prosperity

GLENN E. DOUGLAS

It is claimed that the pendulum of business activity swings to two extremes,—overactivity and underactivity,—one following the other with relentless regularity. The period of overactivity brings in its train rising prices, high wages, large profits, and apparent overproduction, with fear that prosperity is "too good to be lasting;" and consequent greed to get all that is possible before reaction sets in. This is followed by slashed prices, unemployment, inaction, fear, hardship, failure, lack, discouragement, and underproduction.

Many of the leading economic writers and business-men of to-day have reached the conclusion that these business cycles are wholly or partially caused by mental conditions, and that the extremes are unnecessary; and they are trying to analyze the causes of these extremes in order to devise methods of minimizing them. The admission that a solution of the problem is possible is a big step in the right direction, and some excellent plans have been presented from a business standpoint.

However, the alert Christian Scientist is not satisfied with merely reading or studying the material phases of the situation. He realizes that the problem is individual, as well as collective, and must be handled metaphysically by each student of Christian Science right at the point where he is living, that is, in his thoughts first, and then in his daily contacts with the world. He knows that every demonstration of Truth, no matter how small, aids in the lessening of fear and in hastening the day when mankind will no longer be in bondage to any mesmeric lie.

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