Mr. Norcross, in his sermon to business men yesterday morning, took for his text: "Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." He referred to the great preponderance of women in all churches and said that when his ministrations began it was the same among the Christian Scientists. Now, however, it was no longer the case. Men are being converted to Christian Science in greater numbers every year. He rejoiced at this, both because the faith needs cool, level-headed business men, and because business men need the teachings of the faith.
Christian Science is not a movement that is confined to healing, teaching, preaching, but calls for the consecrated gifts and powers of every one. Demonstration of the truths of Christian Science is not something confined to the so-called sick chamber, or to curing of disease, to treating against sin, animal magnetism, but a matter that finds scope and compass in all with which one comes in contact.
To business men alone is confided the opportunity to demonstrate the great and sore needed fact that men can be made honest. Fifteen centuries of such Christianity as is current in this age has not succeeded in eradicating the pernicious, damnable notion that trade is one thing and religion another. All the religious teaching and preaching of the past has not raised us to that high plane where the world sees that real success is conditioned only on strict truth. It has not discovered the glorious practical fact that eternity is now and here, and as we sow, so shall we reap. We do possess pernicious systems of religion which assess in all time and expect to pay dividends only in what they call eternity. Remain in the calling wherein you are called and disclose to the world the immense possibilities that are clearly yours to demonstrate that a high degree of spirituality is compatible with a business life.—Denver News.
