Editorial January 29, 1903 Issue

The Business Man's Needs

THE following extract from a recent editorial in a daily paper, commenting upon the break-down from overwork of a prominent business man, is quite interesting:—

"In making a diagnosis of this case it is important to avoid the error that steady, concentrated work is damaging to health. The truth is found in the reverse of this proposition. Useful occupation is necessary to physical well-being as well as to happiness. Work should be properly regulated. When systematized and kept free from worry, which is a fault, not an essential, work is the best of preservatives as well as the most valuable way of spending time. In cases of what is called breaking down from overwork it is always well to look into personal habits in each particular case, for no two are just alike. Ordinarily, it will be seen that the cause of the trouble is outside of the regular vocation. The candle is burnt at both ends during the pauses, not in working hours."

We assume that from the standpoint of the materialist, the diagnosis is fairly accurate of many similar cases. Whether it is an accurate diagnosis of the particular case to which it refers is immaterial, because our comment must be only from the standpoint that every business man needs a more potent healing agency than material remedies or so-called rest cures. The diagnosis here presented indicates that worry is regarded as a cause rather than an effect. The statement frequently made by business men that through Christian Science their burdens have been lightened and their capacity enlarged, is not based upon the understanding that worry is a cause, or that it can be banished by will-power. Worry is an effect of fear, and the Christian Scientist sees that the fear is caused by distrust of God's watchful care and ample beneficence.

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