Article June 10, 1950 Issue

MINDING ONE'S OWN BUSINESS

JAMES K. WESTOVER

The real business of the student of Christian Science is to bring thought and deed into accord with his highest concept of truth and right and to apply himself assiduously to the acquiring of a still higher understanding of his status as God's representative. Early in his career Christ Jesus announced that he regarded it as his necessity to be about his Father's business, that is, to do the will of God. He was sure that his mission was to teach the allness of God, good, and the perfection of man, made in His likeness; and he proceeded to prove these truths by eliminating sickness, sin, death, and other discordant conditions.

Mary Baker Eddy was also well aware of her God-given assignment to re-establish primitive Christianity and its healing work. She was continually about her Father's business.

Each Christian Scientist is expected, and rightly, to attend to his own individual business of reflecting God, in demonstration of the scientific fact that man is created by God for the sole purpose of reflecting Him and expressing the divine will and activity. His business, then, is so to live and speak and act that only the Father's business will be expressed or exemplified in his affairs. In proportion as he lives up to his highest concept of God's business does he experience the joy and the unlabored and fruitful activity which man as God's reflection unceasingly expresses.

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