MUCH is being said to-day of depleted capital and unemployment, and individuals are voicing a situation that has spread throughout the world until it has involved almost the entire human race. It seems to be a question entailing much uncertainty and suffering. It needs to be dealt with wisely. Students of Christian Science are learning that in this Science of Life, as it really is, can be found a solution for every problem; and more and more they are turning to it for guidance.
On page 468 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy has defined "substance," in part, as "that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay." In the light of this we see that money, lands, securities, are not primarily substance, and never can be truly one's capital. What, then, is this substance that is incapable of destruction? Just one thing—spiritual ideas. One can use an idea again and again; and it remains intact. Subject it to any untoward circumstance, and it emerges unharmed. Falling stock markets cannot affect it; business depression cannot alter it. Spiritual ideas exist always at the standpoint of perfection.
Divine Mind, being omniscient and omnipotent, is a law to itself and is able to maintain itself in a state of perfect balance, so that it can by no means or influence be changed from its state of perfection. Then, does it not follow that everything in this Mind—each one of its ideas—must remain at the standpoint of unimpaired perfection?
