A student of Christian Science was recently transferred to work in a new country. This change brought a series of complications: house hunting, schooling for the children, and urgent business problems. He found himself constantly pressed for time, and usually tired.

One day when he faced a particularly heavy work load, which was increased by inefficient and complacent office help, he decided to direct his thought to the demonstration of spiritual energy. He knew that what he really needed was to identify himself scientifically as the reflection of God's omnipotence, and that the strength he needed emanated from the one and only cause, God, divine Love, which energizes all right activity. He also humbly acknowledged the omnipresence of God and His order and peace. He realized that pressure and pushing were limitations of material sense and could not exist in God-centered thinking.

It had been his plan to arrive at his job early that day and work through lunch and late into the evening. Instead of following this plan, the Scientist began his day with quiet study and prayer before going to his office. There was no rushing. There was no hurrying to begin his schedule early or to plunge into work. He had determined to maintain his inner harmony, to handle only one task at a time, to take regular periods throughout the day for communion with God, and to see his office staff in their true being as useful, responsible ideas of God.

He held to his decision throughout that day and all the succeeding days. From that point on the problems, the incessant demands, and the mountains of papers seemed to melt before his eyes. The office staff caught the tenor, the influence, of his thinking, and began operating at top efficiency. He even found it possible to go home for lunch and spend time in quiet meditation. Gratefully he proved the power of spiritual energy in business.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, drew upon the divine powers of Spirit in every activity. Her wisdom and success in business transactions, as in other matters, resulted not only from human ability and effort but from her reliance on the sustaining forces of God, Truth. She patterned her method of achievement after the example of Christ Jesus.

Jesus demonstrated that the spiritual energies exhibited in man are the qualities of God. His example is timeless, and his teachings are applicable to scholar, artist, and businessman as well. The qualities of God—loving-kindness, goodness, integrity, mercy—support success and prosperity and happiness. The character of men, Jesus taught, must approximate the qualities of God. In this way we can have all the energy we need to accomplish all good.

University degrees, past records, accumulated money, worldly experience, or physical prowess do not necessarily indicate the character of men. All these things are ephemeral. But the qualities or attributes of God, consciously reflected, establish character, which with spiritual unfoldment increases in stature and enables one to take hold of Mind's powerful energies and use them constructively in the business world. High-principled character is the basis of any true success in business.

Christian Science teaches how true character can adjust business life and bring it into conformity with God's business. Arguments of pressure, friction, overwork, and fatigue disappear before the mental ministrations of the Christ, Truth. In God's sight, man has been about his Father's business since "the morning stars sang together." ^{Job 38:7;} One who understands that his true business is the Father's business need never be weary. To such a one, there are no impossible deadlines, no unpleasant personality pressures, no real lack of love or cooperation. In the Father's business unity and compassion are expressed. Control is never usurped, nor is one a pawn of circumstances. The reins of superintendence are in the Father's hands. These reins are not limiting but loving. They are reins of discipline and supreme order.

Under the mandate of the divine intelligence, or Ego, the laws of Love act as laws of adjustment in the human realm when they are understood and realized by those who conform to God's standard of business. Thus the person of excellent character can prove that when his business is governed by God, there is no interruption by disorder, confusion, pressure, anxiety, competition, inflation, or recession.

Spiritual energy in business is demonstrated by the businessman or businesswoman who beholds man as God's reflection. God is the doer, and man is the radiant reflection of God, of the creative, causative Mind. In fact, true business is the industry of creation, the eternal enterprise of Life, Truth, and Love. Reflecting is a tireless, effortless experience. There is no tedious labor involved in demonstrating the peace of Mind, the strength of Love, the vitality of Life.

Mrs. Eddy writes in the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, inclusive of man. From this it follows that business men and cultured scholars have found that Christian Science enhances their endurance and mental powers, enlarges their perception of character, gives them acuteness and comprehensiveness and an ability to exceed their ordinary capacity." ^{Science and Health, p. 128;}

There is no reason or need for weariness, boredom, or flagging attention when one is tuned in to the indefatigable energies of Spirit, God. He may say with the Psalmist, "In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God." ^{Ps. 62:7.} Each one, through the demonstration of Christian Science, can prove the indissoluble unity that exists between God and man. There is an eternal lifeline of energy from God to His whole creation. It can never be severed. Let us claim the flow of spiritual, healing, uplifting power. We can claim it and prove it in our careers, in our lives. In the illumination of Truth no job is burdensome or meaningless, no individual is overtaxed or imposed upon. Now, today, divine Love is imparting to us all the spiritual fervor and vigor it is our divine right to express.