Editorial May 22, 1965 Issue

The Divine Influence in Business

Ralph E. Wagers

Underlying business is the moral law, which, when fulfilled, gives stature to this activity, elevates it above mere acquisitiveness, and brings out the higher qualities of those engaged in it. This law obeyed equitably adjusts profit to service and holds individuals to appropriate codes of business conduct. When this law is ignored or deliberately violated, however, business practices are reduced to the level of chicanery.

When one attempts to render service at a profit, he is confronted with variable factors, many of which have to do with human nature and personal relationships. Christian Science offers the businessman an approach to these factors in which a divine influence brings to his activities a higher dimension, one which is favorable to both service and profits.

The moral law has a divine source. And so when one lives and conducts his business in accord with it, he virtually places himself under a power that is capable of adjusting his activities in the best interests of all. According to the moral law, buyer and seller must both be benefited in each transaction. And this requirement applies as well to such relationships as employer and employee, debtor and creditor.

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