Editorial January 20, 1968 Issue

Real Business Is Always Good

Alan A. Aylwin

"How's business?" Many limes this familiar question is asked when business acquaintances meet. And occasionally, owing to one or a number of reasons, the answer may be, "Not so good!"

But can this answer ever apply to real business? No, never. Real business is always good. It can never fluctuate because it is not dependent upon economic factoid. Sales volume, cost control, profit margin, play no part in it at all. The earnest student of Christian Science understands real business to be the day-to-day process of spiritualizing thought, learning a little more about God and about man's real selfhood as His perfect spiritual image and likeness.

In other words, the student sees that he exists for one purpose only—to express God, and therefore his genuine vocation is to learn how to conform his thoughts and actions to the divine standard of perfection. This is happy, deeply satisfying work because it reveals something of the actual nature of man and unfolds the normal harmony and completeness of his real being.

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