Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-03-12

actlOn Claiming 10 De religion must
be applicable to every phase of human
living in order to make good its claim.
We have right to expect this from re-
ligion,. and we may reasonably reject
as unsatisfactory any asserted revela-
ton of Truth which does not fulfill
these conditions. Christ came to seek
and to save that which was lost, to
declare full salvation. While the
great Teacher plainly deprecated the
merely commercial spirit. he showed
by demonstration, that the Christ saves
from every form of limitation AMI pro-
vides an abundance of all that is
needful. Jesus taught that financial
discord, or lack, was phase of error
which could be and must be corrected
by the true understanding of mans
complete endowment. Today, human
ity presents the need of whole sal
walton, of full declaration of the be-
nevolent purpose of divine Love. To-
the business man, staggering under
a load of fear, and false sense of
personal endeavor,, Christian Science
offers salvation SO simple in its ap-
plicability that all may prove it. The
| business man has natural right to
expect that his religion will be quite
as stable in his relations with his fell
lows on work days, as it is in church
on Sundays. 1t is certainly true that
wrong thinking produces discord in
the realm of the physical, and it 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 real
Eization that there is remedy, is one
of the reasons why the Christian Sci
ence movement is growing so rapidly
and is attracting to itself men engaged
in large affairs, who find this religion
of Christ very simple, very sane, and
very practical.
The following extracts from letters
to a business man, present some OF
the relations of Christian Science to
his needs:
Experience teaches that the correct
i've work is always within; that we
need to be protected more from oul
fears and wrong thoughts, than from
so-called evil influences external tt
ourselves. We need not suffer for an
other mans wrong-for another's
greed, dishonesty, averice, or selfish
, ambition. But if we make these
claims real and personal, take then
into our thought, allow them to dis
turb us, then we sentence ourselves
We are free to reject every Suggestion
| of discord, and to be governed har
moniouslH in spite of what something
or somebody may try to do to us.
Fear results from belief that there
is something, somewhere, which car
affect us injuriously. Whether or no
the thing we fear has actual existence
|ink,power to hurt us, is unimportant. Il
1helief in this thing called evi
: The damage, andsYel mas
and f56. opEu
greatly feafsd q ~ |5f3n I|'1<
| The healing truth, wien i 4
! correct fear and the discordsf X12z|
follow it. is that there is only 'on<
Cause and one effect, both infinite ant
both good. This great fact is MOI
grasped at once in its entirety, but
glimpse of it inspires confidence, am
gives man a feeling of security ane
,f ability to meet the attacks of tina
which seemeth to be but Is not.
There is certainly wide difference
between the man who firmly believes
that evil persons or evil influences cal
II jntrnde into his business, and the mai
who knows that the great omnipoten
| principle of the universe governs hin
: and all his relations to men. This las
: man has no fear that anybody can hur
his business, He enjoys the self-prc
lltectoin which is secured by right thh-k
ing III ali subjects.
| Never think of danger, disaster, fail
ure, limitation, discord. confusion, !
you do not want to have these condi
| lions of thought manifested on you
body II in your 1t siness. You ca
have no fea, for the future, If yc'
| are prayerful seeking to satisfy your
| SELF on the basis of Christian Scienc
that every move you make. every &C
| you perform, every relationship yol
| enter into, DIS in keeping with the de
lImands of the one supreme intelligence
we call God. This is the truth of tn
II matter, and when thought become
| filled with it, it brings assurance, cor