Editorial April 29, 1933 Issue

Profit

Violet Ker Seymer

To men and women of all professions or no profession, and to young people, Christian Science offers the right understanding of profit. It lifts thought beyond the merely financial aspect of profit, which is apt to involve one in rivalry and worry. The mental sense of what is deeply profitable enables one to use present occupations as stepping-stones to those of purer and more permanent value.

The spirit in which a manager conducts his business, for instance, determines whether or not it shall be in the highest sense profitable. While fully justified in expecting efficiency and zeal on the part of his employees, he will also appreciate the value to him and to them of fair consideration, encouragement, gratitude, and verbal appreciation of their work. These are the profits he should seek to increase, for they are a shield to him against the arguments of stagnation, domination, or lack of opportunity to serve humanity.

In that business which is permeated throughout by the spirit of justice, mercy, and loving-kindness, as taught in Christian Science, both employer and employees will be found seeking in all their dealings to express the integrity of divine Principle and the unerring intelligence of divine Mind. In such a business there will be found no shirking of duties, no unjust blame, no favoritism, no anxiety. Even as business accounts have to be correctly balanced, so should one balance one's account with God, that is, watch and see how closely he is balancing his conscious reflection of God with its perpetual expression in his daily life. The true thinker is convinced of the adequacy of divine Mind on all occasions, and through his conscious dependence profits by it at every turn. Holding closely to the law of cooperation which governs God's ideas, he finds himself animated by the spirit of helpfulness and directed into suitable ways of expressing it.

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