Article March 7, 1936 Issue

Three Essentials of Business

NATHAN G. CHATTERTON

BUSINESS forms a very important part in the lives of mortals. Almost every man and woman and child is engaged in some kind of business activity, or is preparing to enter such activity. Broadly speaking, all business has come into being to supply some need of humanity, whether it be for food, shelter, transportation, education, legal advice, or other service. In other words, business is service, and men and women engaged in it are servants one to another. The housewife is engaged in the business of caring for the home. Many business houses recognize their obligations to their fellow men to provide genuine service, and in this way they make valuable contributions to the good of society.

Now service is the very essence of human activity. Did not Jesus say, "I am among you as he that serveth"? And consider the magnitude of the service he rendered humanity! And what shall we say of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy—of her unselfish devotion to the Cause of Christian Science, and her extraordinary service on behalf of mankind, second only to that of the Master?

Students of Christian Science engaged in business, either as employers or as employees, are learning to turn to God wholeheartedly to make them better business men and women, better servants. They are learning that in the realm of reality, the Christ-consciousness, there is only one business, the activity of God's eternal law, which has never ceased to function and can never cease to function on behalf of spiritual man, the only man there is. Indeed, God's ideas, which He is constantly unfolding without measure, restraint, or restriction, constitute the selfhood of the real man, "the compound idea of God, including all right ideas" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 475). Hence man and his supply in reality are one and inseparable; neither exists without the other. And because the spiritual man and his supply are inseparable, students of Christian Science, through the intelligent application of the rules they have learned, are trying to prove more and more clearly this wonderful fact in their human experience. This endeavor, or prayer, on their part naturally leads them into higher realms of thought regarding their business activity. In these higher realms of thought intuition becomes keener, and ideas come into one's consciousness almost without effort.

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