Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-09
Christian Science Helps
to Win in Business Life

1t sees" (science and Health, p. S6).
Therefore If we see poverty and disas-
ter and loss 1t is because we believe
them. To begin every day to turn our
thought away from this false belief and
place our trust in the divine power for
good is to gradually see our affairs ex-
pressing our change of thought.
The experience of every seeker for
help in Christian Science Is indiVldual.
Sometimes one person needs to let go
of q hidden selfishness toward others
before he can realize the presence of
good and abundance in his life. Some
times there is self-righteousness,
sense that a. man has "done the best
he could all his life," and that God
owes it to him to help him. Sometimes
there is ambition or pride that needs
the discipline of being wiling TO 90
humble work. Sometimes there is, un-
der the endeavor to trust God for sup
ply, really a mere desire to equal
others in display and pleasure seeking.
One may sometimes have to see tnat
the present trouble is the effect OF
some definite fault, even of past dis
honesty or laziness on ones own part,
and to acknowledge these things before
God and ask to be lifted out of them.
Rut no one who honestly strives to
have his own weakness, his inef-
hciency. his slovenly habits of thought
and action, the thousand errors OF
mortal mind, made plain to him in the
light of scientific understanding can
fail to find the work which Is Tor
him to do and to be shown now TO DO
it we'll
An Illustration of how what one
thinks is expressed in ones experience
is told by a woman who had frlend
at work after ordinary material meth
DDS among the poor of a great CITY,
WHEN SHE AWOKE
This friend was often discouraged
ana brought the great burden of the
worlds ignorance and sloth and need
constantly before the thought of the
first woman until the latter began also
to think poverty and limitation ana
physical and mental penury. She
finally found that her own resources
were seemingly cut off. She was 40
ing what she could to help the poor ID
the ways her friend asked, but II
seemed as If she would soon have lit
tie to meet her own needs. waxing
to this she began to work in Chrlstlah
Science to affirm and to realize the
present abundance of God, the uhllln
tied resources of infinite Mind and
the love which supplies all good to all
Gods children at all times. She stroVe
to keep these absolute truths III
thought instead OIL lle plSIoiO VI
erty and distress. Within one week OF
this steadfast work there came TO her
for the second time an offer of EN-
ployment which she had refused teW
years before, as she thought many
in order to go on with her education.
Now the coming of this opportunity
for the second time not only proved the
efficacy of her prayer but also proved
false the old theory that opportunity
never knocks twice at the same door.
Indeed the offer now came to her with
double the salary attached, because OF
her gain in standing through the addl-
tional study. SO was her trust proved
that orderly things, right and good
things, prevail in Gods government
and that those who honestly set them
selves to obey His law are cared for
beyond any possibilities of human pro-
viding.
ANY one who will learn the rules OF
Christian Science and honestly adhere
to them, not merely giving lip service,
but opening his heart to the great COM
fort which God offers him. can prove
the efficacy of these rules as apphed
to the common daily tasks and needs of
mankind.