The speaker made the following introductory remarks:

Today we're going to discuss how the ability to think clearly can be gained through the understanding of God, how this understanding can help you in your daily activity, no matter what your occupation may be. Let's consider an actual example to illustrate this point. Our guest today is a man who speaks from his own experience in business—Frank Salisbury of Jenison, Michigan.

Mr. Salisbury spoke as follows:

I've had many proofs of the power of Christian Science to solve problems for the businessman. Back in 1947, I found it a great help in establishing a new interior decorating business. I didn't have much money, but step by step with the help of Christian Science I found a suitable location and was able to get the building remodeled. Although I began on a shoestring, the business prospered, and within two years I bought the property.

On one occasion I was confronted with many bills payable, and my funds were low. I had many accounts due on the books, but payments were not coming in. So I decided to turn to God in prayer for the solution to this problem.

For the first few mornings I watched the mail very anxiously and was discouraged because no checks came in. But then I awakened to the fact that I must look to God for supply instead of to checks, invoices, or other material conditions. So I turned my attention to thinking about the abundance divine Love gives to man. I began to realize that in reality man's supply cannot be lost or withheld. It can't be depleted or consumed, and with this change in my approach came an amazing change in the entire situation. Checks began to come in, and within a few days almost all the accounts receivable were paid up. I was able to pay my bills and establish a more normal sense of supply.

But one of the most interesting proofs I ever had of the power of prayer to help a businessman occurred some time later. I had just started a new decorating job for a customer in another city. I had all ready tied up several hundred dollars in the work when I was informed by other businessmen who had dealt with this customer that I was in for a bad time. One of them told me that he hoped that I would not lose money on this job as he had done. The customer was described to me as being very hard to please and disagreeable.

I certainly must have let these statements influence my thinking, for very soon I found that I had a problem on my hands, and as Job said in the Bible, the thing that I greatly feared had come upon me. Everything seemed to be wrong. The customer refused to accept the work when it was finished and refused to pay for it. I asked her to think the matter over for a while. You see, I wanted to correct my own thinking about the whole situation. So I took the opportunity during the next few days to learn more of man in God's likeness. As I did this, I gained an understanding that God's man is just, honest, and fair.

And when I called at the home of this customer a short time later, I was greeted cordially and invited to come in. We had a very friendly talk and minor differences were worked out to the satisfaction of both of us. The customer told me she was very pleased with the work and wrote me a check in full for the job. But the wonderful thing was that she paid me more than the bill. She said she wanted to pay me for any inconvenience she had caused me. To me this proved again beyond doubt that right spiritual thinking can correct a business situation. The commentary was as follows:

How right you are, Mr. Salisbury. When you stop to think about it, business invariably reflects the thinking of those transacting it. It's obvious that success in any business, in any job, rests on decisions, on ideas, and these come from clear thinking.

But how is one to gain the capacity to think clearly? Does it come from human background or education, from personal mental powers which some possess and some do not? In Christian Science we learn that intelligence is available to everyone. It comes from the divine source, from God, who is Mind, the one perfect Mind. This Mind includes unlimited intelligence, wisdom, understanding. Because God created man in His own image and likeness, as the Bible tells us, man in reality expresses God's qualities. He's endowed by God with such divine qualities as intelligence and wisdom. When we realize these spiritual facts, we find proof of them in our human experience. We express better judgment, more ability, ingenuity, foresight, inspiration.

Our guest proved this. He applied his understanding of man's relationship to God to two problems which face many businessmen: the problem of supply and the problem of personal relationships.

The capacity to deal harmoniously with others is derived from an understanding of the one Mind, God. If we listen to idle talk and believe that disagreeable, unfair, dishonest thinking can actually be attached to man, then we are apt to experience the consequences of our own belief. We may see these negative qualities coming to us in the guise of another person—or even expressed as our own thinking.

But the understanding that all of God's children are harmoniously governed by God, the one Mind, resolves friction, discords, and differences of opinion.

To work out his problem of supply, Mr. Salisbury utilized the understanding Christian Science had given him that God is not only the one Mind, but also divine Love— the source of all good, the only source of man's supply. The Apostle Paul brought out this point in his letter to the Philippians when he said, "My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."

When we look to God instead of to material sources for our supply, we find that our supply is abundant. It consists of right ideas which God, divine Love, divine Mind, is forever imparting to His children. And these ideas show us how we can meet our everyday needs.

Our guest grasped the importance of these things. He turned his attention away from a dwindling bank balance. He turned his thought to the abundance which the one Mind, the divine Love which is God, is constantly imparting to man. His need was met.

And now, let's summarize very briefly the main points we've discussed. The source of all intelligence is God, divine Mind. Man is the child of God. He is made in God's image and likeness. He continuously expresses all of God's qualities. An understanding of this enables us to remove from our thinking such limiting beliefs as discouragement, fear, irritation, pessimism, lack, and to replace these with patience, confidence, joy, enthusiasm, abundance.

In this way we demonstrate God's harmonious government. We prove the fact stated by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" where she says (pp. 510, 511), "Science reveals only one Mind, and this one shining by its own light and governing the universe, including man, in perfect harmony."

The musical selection on this program Was Hymn No. 93 from the Christian Science Hymnal (Happy the man whose heart can rest).