Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
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from religion, and we may reaSohapiy
reject as unsatisfactory any asserted rev.
elation of truth which does not iuilil
these conditions. Christ came to seek
md 70 save that which was lost, to de-
clare a full salvation. While the great
Teacher plainly deprecated the merely
commercial spirit he showed by Demon
stration that the Christ saves from every
FORM of limitation and provides an abun-
dance of all that is needful. Jesus tauSht
that financial discord, or lack, was d
,,base of error which could be and musy
be corrected by the true understanding
\ ~ mans complete endowment Today
humanity presents the need of whole
salvation. OF a full declaration OF the
henevolelt purpose of divine love. 10
the business man, staggering under
load of fear and a false sense OF personal
endeavor, Christian Science offers a sal
walton so simple in its applicability that
ali NAV prove it. The business man has
a natural right to expect that his reiiSieh
will be quite as usable in his relations
with his fellows on work days as IL IS
in church on Sundays, 1t is certainly
true that wrong thinking produces dis
cord In the realm of the physical ana IL
is equally true that wrong thinking
brings a diseased condition In the realm
of commerce 1t may be that the UNDER
standing of these facts and the realiza-
tion that there is a remedy is one of the
reasons why the Christian Science move
nent is growing so rapidly ana is at
tracting to itself men engaged in large
AFFAIRS. who find this religion of Christ
very simple, very sane and very prac-
tical, says the Christian Science Journal.
The following extracts from letters 70
q business man presents some OF the
relations of Christian Science to his
needs:
Right Thinkers Protected
Experience teaches that the corrective
work is always within; that we need to
be protected more from our fears ana
wrong thoughts than from so-cailed eVu
influences external to ourselves. we neeo
not suffer for another mans wrong-ior
another's greed. dishonesty, avarice or
selfish ambition. But If we make these
claims real and personal, take them into
our thought, allow them to disturb us,
then we sentence ourselves. We are Iree
TO reject every suggestion OF discord ana
to be governed harmoniously in spite OF
what something or somebody may Try
to do to u.s.
Fear results from a belief that there
is something, somewhere, which can ar
feet us injuriously. Whether or not the
thing we fear has actual existence or
mower to hurt us is unimportant. 1t is
our belief in this thing called evil which
does the damage, and we may enooW
nothing with power to hurt us and tnen
suffer from our self-created fears. JOB
said, '"The thing which l greatly reared
is come upon me-" The healing truth,
which is needed to correct fear and the
discords which follow 1t, is that there is
only one cause and one effect, both IN
f1nite and both good. This great fact is
not grasped at once in it's entirety, put
a glimpse of it inspires confidence, ana
gives man feeling of security and OF
ability to meet the attacks OF that wnlcn
seemeth to be but is not.
There is certainly a wide difference
between the man who firmly believes
that evil persons or evil influences can
intrude into his business and the man
who knows that the great omnipotent
principle of the universe governs him and
all his relations to men. This last man
has no fear that anybody can hurt his
business. He enjoys the self-protection
which Is secured by right thinking on all
subjects.
Never think danger, disaster, failure,
limitation, discord, confusion If you DO
not want to have these conditions or
thought manifested on your body or IN
your business. You can have no fear Tor
the future If you are prayerfully seeking
to satisfy yourself on the basis of Chris
tfan Science that every move you make,
every act you perform, every relation
ship you enter into is in keeping with
the demands of the one supreme 1ntelli-
gence we call God. This is the truth OF
the matter, and when thought becomes
filed with it it brings assurance, con-
fdence and peace.
Try to impersonalize error; that IS 10
saw resist the temptation to assign dis
cordant results to persons or to personal
activity The first step in healing any
case, / take it, is to see the discord as
a condition of thought and not a con-
dition of matter, to regard 1t as error
or evil outside of personal forms, but
expressing itself through these forms.
Then the next step becomes easy, which
is the destruction in your thought of a
belief in the reality of impersonal evil,
because you are fully persuaded that God
is one and infinite. The time for the
healing to appear is not next week, or
some time in the uncertain future but
now.
Whatever appears in legitimate busi-
ness as discord or confusion or lack is
not true and may be removed without
causing suffering to the business itself.
In other words, whatever comes up in
business. as person or general situation,
whatever disrupts harmony, whatever
purposes to rob us, be 1t expressed by
personality OF by a trade condition, it is
unnatural unlawful and untrue, and may
be removed without disturbing the other
parts of the business. 1t will be removed
by being transformed or by being sep
arated and expelled; this is the inevi-
table law Of good, ever-active.
Under the direction of infinite wisdom
man cannot fail. A thousand business
enterprises governed by the selfish hui
man mind may be shipwrecked and ten
thousand business men, when guided only
by their own so-called human minds, may
unite in declaring that business is bad
but to the man working consciously un-
der divine guidance this is not true. All
things are possible to the consciousness
which derives it's power from God. No
undertaking is too great for the real man
if that undertaking be legitimate.
The laws of commerce, the laws gov
erning the business world are many of
them capricious, tyrannical, unjust A
wise Creator never made them, and we
have a right to harmony in spite of them.
Is it reasonable to suppose that man is
set adrift in the universe and told to get
his living, and that there are then loosed
upon him a merciless pack of laws, the
operation of which tends to prevent him
from getting his living? Is It reasonable
to believe. as we have believed, that
popular fancy, whims, climate, the state
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