The Republican journal., 1916-06-29
MANS TRUE BUSINESS
The Business of Being and Doing
Right Is The One Bringing The
Greatest Returns.


the doctors in the temple, he an
swered her, 'Wist We not that l must
be about my Fathers business
Something not yet understood by heI
was taking him into scenes and sur
roundings she had not planned for him
Serving God, he went where this ser.
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.
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
industrial enterprises, to the &C
Invites 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 busles one, or that which en-
cages the time, attention, or labor of
any one as his principal concern or
Interest. Then, whatever may be the
work for the day, the principal con-
Germ or interest of serving good can
be paramount and so be rightly con.
sldered 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
suffering that drives US back to the
best we know. Right desire destroys
any supposed peace in wrong doing,
brings him whom it animates into
better and better thinking and living,
because he cannot otherwise be con-
tent. Good motives should not have
hard time to find their way into so
cial life, home life, and into all per-
sonal relations and affairs. Not UNI
til all men unite in one unshifting
standard which condemns anything
less than the wholly straight, clean
way of honesty and truth, will all suf-
ferlng be lifted from the business in
terests nf the world. But if one man,
and another, and another, will hold
steadfastly to the one business of
righteousness, and stand firmly for
his highest sense of integrity in all
his 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
to be about it without waiting for his
neighbor, and to the man who is con-
sciously about it comes a new quality
of success a success that outshiHes
all the intrigues Of human nature, for
1t is born of the effort to manifest
God
ITO many who are striving to serve
good, Christian Science has brought
much enlightenment and comfort. 1t
stands upon Scriptual authority and
declares God to be Mind,-divine
Mind; declares this Mind to be wholly
good, wholly powerful, wholly pres
ent. From this basis it maintains
evil to be powerless and nonresident
to divine Mind, and assures US that
just so fast as we let divine Mind
come into our thinking to displace hu.
man beliefs and fears, evil will be-
come CORRESPONDENCE powerless and
non-eXistent to u.s. Not in a day. nor
in a lifetime, perhaps, will evil be
wholly extinguished to us; but the
knowledge brought to US through the
Scriptures and through Christian
Science, that evil has no more power
than mortals give it by liking or fear
ing it, helps us to begin now to re-
duce it to nothing and to hope for
release from it in the measure of our
fidelity to good
Thus the one business of overcom-
ing evil with increased understanding
of good becomes apparent to US. We
see that the human mind alone Is I'M
equal to the task of it, and are taught
how to seek divine Mind and how to
depend upon spiritual law to accom-
plish it. We learn that God, divine
Mind, Is the one and only en-
ployer and that everyone who
lives should be employed, through
thinking and doing as divine
Mind would have him think and do.
in the business off, manifesting good.
And he who is about his Fathers
business, even though he be the
humblest of earth or be serving the
least Important Of earth, is surely
and sweetening all the
relations of life and learning that God
Is an employer who withholds no good
thing from them that serve Him"