Article June 10, 1939 Issue

Our True Purpose

GUY B. ARTHUR

In the morning hours, thousands of Christian Scientists cherish the valiant hope that they may go to their business clad, as Paul commended, in "the whole armour of God." They desire earnestly to maintain all through the busy day their consciousness of the true things of Spirit, untouched by annoyance or fatigue.

Many entertain a false concept of business, and, as a result, business is accused of unlovely practices. This is a challenge to every Christian Scientist, both in contributing right thinking to business and in receiving right returns from it. Business consists in exchanging services. Rightly viewed, business is an expression of good. That is its true nature. To be in business of any kind, in any capacity, while holding to the spiritual concept of business, is honorable and constructive.

One of the subtle snares which mortal mind lays for the unwary is the claim that we must accept the material ways and standards of business which seem to prevail; that we are subject to its customs, limitations, and mesmerism, without choice. We are led to believe sometimes that we have no time for metaphysical preparation and protection, or that our business is a thing apart from our understanding and application of divine Science. We may even fail to obey Article VIII, Section 6, of the Manual of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy, which reads in part, "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind."

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