IN "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 13) Mrs. Eddy has said, "The only justice of which I feel at present capable, is mercy and charity toward every one,—just so far as one and all permit me to exercise these sentiments toward them,—taking special care to mind my own business." If our God-inspired, wise Leader in her endeavor to express justice toward all found it necessary to take "special care" to mind her own business, what think you should be the attitude of her followers in this direction? Surely all will agree that they should not be any less solicitous.
Perhaps there is no lesson which the entire world is more in need of learning than this very one of how to mind one's own business. Wherever one goes—all around the globe —he finds persons minding nearly every one's business but their own. So much attention do they give to the affairs of others that often there is scant opportunity left to attend to their own. To be sure, occasionally some are found who have become so disturbed by having others interfere with their business that they desire to avoid not only this unpleasantness, but also the danger of trespassing on others' preserves. They therefore attempt to live an independent existence. This, however, but lands them in a different sort of dilemma, perhaps one which they find even less agreeable.
Since the affairs of all men are and must ever continue to be more or less interrelated, men are everywhere seeking to know how to mind their own business and at the same time to fulfill their consistent duty to their fellow-men. In order to solve this apparent enigma, they must first see that all their difficulties are based in the belief in many minds and in many interests. Then they must go farther and learn, as Christian Science teaches, that there is but one Mind, God, and that finally all responsibility for every one and everything rests with Him.
