Notes from a Busy Man's Desk

WHEN we find ourselves wishing for more money for "the good we could do with it," it is well to ask ourselves if we are doing all the good we can with what we have.

A sick business needs the same mental regimen as a sick body. Neither can permanently manifest harmony, if fear, greed, envy, or deceit is allowed to control.

To avoid disappointment there is one recipe that never fails. It is to make God's way our way in whatever we do or think, and to learn to say "Thy will be done" before the fact as well as afterwards.

There is no more virtue in poverty, than there is sin in plenty. The danger we must guard against lies in giving undue power to either condition. It is not money, but the love of it that is "the root of all evil."

A few minutes of silent talk with God in the whirl of a busy hour is like a mountain breeze on a stifling day. It invigorates physically and elevates mentally. It corrects wrong motives, clears our vision, and turns our thoughts into right channels.

Every honest transaction of business, no matter how simple or complex it may be, can be made to work for the glory of God if the desire for personal gain or advancement is subordinated to the willingness to "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."

To submit promptly and cheerfully to God's laws is the scientist's privilege as well as duty, and brings freedom and blessings untold. Submission that is reluctant or rebellious brings bondage and misery. It is like the imprisoned bird that beats its breast against the bars of its cage when the open door is just behind it.

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