Editorial August 26, 1933 Issue

"We Do Our Part"

W. Stuart Booth

The officials of the United States government who are charges with the enforcement of the National Recovery Act have issued a slogan and a sign of coöperation in the words "We Do Our Part." In order to be entitled to display this sign individuals, business firms, and corporations must take certain designated steps regarding the hours, working conditions, and in many instances the compensation of their employees which are expected to be widely beneficial in their results. The sponsors and supporters of this measure base their hope of its successful operation upon certain economical calculations which appear pleasing and plausible.

Christian Science leads its consistent students to be humanitarians, and therefore the National Recovery Act and all ameliorative measures are of interest to them. They see much more, however, in the present plan and effort of the United States government than the shortening of working hours, increasing of pay, and employing of additional workers in order that purchasing power may be normalized. The Christian Scientist, dealing with mental causes rather than outward effects, recognizes that the origin of the world's business difficulties lies in such thought-conditions as selfishness, fear, greed, and injustice. Naturally, the corrective for these trouble-making thoughts and the healer of their resultant bad business situations is to be found in a right mental attitude and activity. Even as the only dispeller of darkness is light, so the eliminators of these darkening and depressing thoughts are unselfishness, gratitude, justice, and confidence in God, good.

Of Course any reasoning and reasonable person will agree to these stated propositions, but Christian Science goes much farther by revealing God and His infinite power as the real and only Saviour from every untoward condition. For Christian Science, the Science of God, Truth, shows that divine Mind is the source of all true ideas, including those spiritual and obvious correctives of selfishness, fear, and the like. These true ideas are not brought into play with men by coercion, but by genuine coöperation with those who likewise are striving unselfishly for the good of all. Such cooperation is inspired, steadied, and empowered by the acknowledged fact that as men express God's thoughts, such as justice, unselfishness, confidence, and gratitude, they are aligning themselves with omnipotent divine Principle, Love. Thereby they are proving that, in a degree at least, they have the Mind which was in Christ Jesus.

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