News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-06-07
MANS TRUE BUSINESS
The Business of Being and Doing
Right Is The One Bringing The
Greatest Returns.

was sought by his mother while he
was hearing and asking questions OF
the doctors in the temple, he an
swered her, 'Wist We not that I must
be about my Fathers business?
Something not yet understood by her
was taking him into scenes and sur
roundings she had not planned for him.
Serving God, he went where thisSser-
vice led him; did what this service
demanded Of him. No single account
In the Scriptures shows Jesus as serv-
ing himself or the selfish interests Of
any person or persons about him. The
work of clarifying God and of estab-
fishing the kingdom of God in the
hearts Of men was upon him, and
with answering purpose he went
about it," says a writer in the Chris
tian Science Monitor.
"All men today surely should be
engaged in just one business,-the
business of being and doing right.
Whatever the outward activities may
be, whatever the daily routine, the
service of good should be uppermost.
Many people confine their thought
Of business to commercial or
industrial enterprises, to the &C
tivities which bring material gain
or income; and trying to man.
age these through merely human ca
pacities and talents, are beset with
many perplexities. The dictionaries
tell us that ones business is that
which busies one, or that which en-
cages the time, attention, or labor of
any one as his principal concern or
work for the day, the principal con-
Germ or interest of serving good can
be paramount and so be rightly con.
sidered ones real business. And,
however much time ard attention ex-
ternal things demand, the constant
effort to be and to do right can keep
one steadily employed.
This is all, OF course, a mental
question; and right motive Is the key
note of the situation. With an hon
est desire for 'rightness' we cannot
go far wrong without a measure of
Ing IloI vi uS Ddth W IhC
best we know. Right desire destroys
any supposed peace in wrong doing,
brings him whom 1t animates into
better and better thinking and living,
because he cannot otherwise be con-
tent. Good motives should not have
cial life, home life, and into all ! err
sonal relations and affairs. Not un-
til all men unite in one unshihting
standard for right doing, and that a
standard which condemns anything |
less than the wholly straight, clean |
way of honesty and truth, will all suf-
fering be lifted from the business in |
terests of the world. But If one man. !
and another, and another, will hold |
to the one business OF
and stand firmly for !
his highest sense Of integrity in all
MS dealings, an increase Of good will
bring daily relief to the whole situa-
ton. The business of doing right Is
an individual business. Each man has
10 be about 1t without waiting for his
neighbour and to the man who is con-
sciously about it comes a new quality
IF success a success that outshines
Ill the intrigues of human nature, for
t Is born of the effort to manifest
God.
ITO many who are striving to serve
rood, Christian Science has brought
much enlightenment and comfort 1t
stands upon Scriptual authority and
leclares God to be Mind,-divine
Mind; declares this Mind to be wholly
,ood, wholly powerful, wholly pres.
mt. From this basis it maintains
vii to be powerless and nonresident
o divine Mind, and assures us that
ust so fast as we let divine Mind
ONE into our thinking to displace hu.
nan beliefs and fears, evil will be-
ONE correspondingly powerless and
to US. Not in a day, nor
4 lifetime, perhaps, will evil be
holly extinguished to us; but the
brought to us through the
criptures and through Christian .
cience, that evil has no more power ,
han mortals give it by liking or fear
lg 1t, helps us to begin now to re- ,
uce it to nothing and to hope for 4,
elease from it in the measure of our / ,
deity to good.
Thus the one business Of overcom-
lg evil with increased understanding 7
good becomes apparent to us. We :
se that the human mind alone is I'M
lual to the task Of it, and are taught s
ow to seek divine Mind and how to =
epend upon spiritual law to accom- ;.
ish 1t. We learn that God, divine :,
ind, is the one and only en-
oyer and that everyone who
yes should be employed, through
linking and doing as divine =,
ind would have him think and do, :,
the business of manifesting good. a,
nd he who is about his Fathers =
Isiness, even though he be the :
Imblest Of earth or be serving the "
asst important Of earth, is surely B"
frightening and sweetening all the
lations Of life and learning that God
an employer who withholds no good
Ing from them that serve Him." le
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