THE question, "How is business?" is heard on every hand. Through universal consent, the peace and prosperity of mankind in general seem largely to depend on the answer. Of all the erroneous beliefs about business, perhaps the most devastating to human happiness is that dishonest business can prosper where honest business may fail. The struggle which mankind makes for release from a topsy-turvy economy that accepts evil as the procurer of good, and good of evil, is not so hopeless as it sometimes appears, for it points to the unreality of the belief. This unreality is being demonstrated by those who have learned something of the true nature of business and are applying their understanding in human experience.
Among the multitudes who thronged Jesus, there must have been many to whom the difficulties of business in that day seemed very real. On one occasion he said, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's;" on another, "The labourer is worthy of his hire." To the toiling fishermen he said, "Cast the net on the right side." While yet a child, he asked. "Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" The last of these sayings presented a spiritual fact of profound economic significance. It foreshadowed his mastery of the problems which were subsequently brought to him. It provides each one of us with practical means whereby we may solve the business problems of our day.
Mary Baker Eddy was a successful business woman. She achieved this success through her understanding of the Father's business— through her realization of perfect God, man, universe, as revealed in Christian Science, of which she was the Discoverer and Founder. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and in her other writings, she has given humanity explicit directions for release from the claims of social injustice, monopoly, political power, and unfair competition, which, at the beginning of the century, she foresaw as becoming increasingly aggressive. In her work "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 373) she states, "Neither material finesse, standpoint, nor perspective guides the infinite Mind and spiritual vision that should, does, guide His children."
