The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1908-02-06
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE
BUSINESS LIFE

Any system Of human thought and
action claiming to be religion must
~ applicable to every phase Of hu.
man living In order to make good
~ claim. We have a right to expect
this from religion, and we may rea-
sonably reject as unsatisfactory any
asserted revelation of Truth which
does not fulfil 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 apd provides 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 COM
plete endowment. Today. humanity
presents the need of a whole saliva
ton, Of full declaration of the ben
evolent purpose OF divine Love. To
the business man, staggering under
I load Of fear, and false sense Of
personal endeavor, Christian Science
Offers salvation SO simple In its APP
plicability that all may prove 1t. The
business man has natural right to
expect that his religion will be quite
o. susable In his relations with his
fellows ON work days. as 1t Is In
church on Sundays. 1t is certainly
true that wrong thinking produces
discord In the realm of the physical.
and II is equally true that wrong
thinking brings a diseased condition
IN the realm OF commerce. It may be
that the understa nding OF these facts,
and the realisation that there Ia
remedy, 10 one Of the reasons why
the Christian Science movement is
growing 80 rapidly and is attracting
TO itself men engaged in large affairs.
who md this religion OF Christ very
simple. very sane, and very prac-
tical.
The following extracts from letters
70 . business man, present some OF
the relations Of Christian Science to
his needs:
Experience teaches that the cor
receive work Is always within; that
" need to be protected more from
our fears and wrong thoughts. than
from so-calied evil Influences external
70 Ourselves. We need not suffer
Tor another mans wrongs-fcr an
Others greed. dishonesty. avarice. or
selfish ambition. But II we make
these claims real and personal, take
them Into our thought. allow them
70 disturb Us. then we sentence our
selves. We are free to reject every |
Duggsstion Of discord, and to be gov
srnsd harmoniously. In spite Of what |
something Or somebody may try to
10 to 10.
Fear results from q belief that
here % something. somewhere. which
IN Affect US injuriously. Whether
" not the thing we fear has actual
Bxistence. or power to hurt us, Is un-
important. It 10 our belief in this
hing called evil which does the dam
~, and W may endow nothing with
DOwer to hurt us, and then suffer
rom our self-created fears. Job said. L
The thing which | greatly feared is
ona unen me-" The healing truth,
vhich h needed to correct fear and
~ discords which follow It. is that !
horo = only one cause and one effect. 3
Oh Infinite and both good. This I
reat feet \ not grasped at once In l
! 6nfirety. but glimpse OF It in =
ulses confidence. and gives man a I
I9iing u security and Of ability to '
~ the attacks Of that which Il
o1noth 70 BE- but u not. b
1870 4 certainly ! vide difference 6