American business is more and more being called upon to involve itself in the solution of some of today's most glaring problems, largely centered around race relations and poverty. If this involvement takes place, it will eventually represent a major change in the general attitude toward where a businessman's concern should end. The public is beginning to identify certain characteristics of the successful corporation, such as its flexibility, adaptability, and closeness to where the action is, as making it ideally suited to remedy some of the basic problems involved in the social crisis.
But what insights does Christian Science give to those in business—or out of it—that cast more light on this subject?
Mrs. Eddy states in her Preface to Miscellaneous Writings: "A certain apothegm of a Talmudical philosopher suits my sense of doing good. It reads thus: 'The noblest charity is to prevent a man from accepting charity; and the best alms are to show and to enable a man to dispense with alms.'"Mis., p. ix;
