The widening disparity between technological progress and the solution of social problems, including its dilemma "why go to the moon while millions go hungry?" is uncovering the need for a more enlightened approach to economic conditions, to business methods and problems. The limitations besetting efforts to meet this need on a material basis show that the basic motivating purpose of every useful and successful activity must be moral and spiritual, a genuine desire to serve rather than acquire.
Of course, the business world today includes many responsible, civic-minded institutions known for their integrity and patriotism. In some degree they evidence the fact that rightly motivated business flourishes, and they help stimulate national and world economy. This, as Christian Science teaches, is because the practice of right motives demonstrates man's eternal unity with God, divine Principle, and His unerring, beneficent laws. The individual whose business activities are impelled by Principle finds his experience governed by the law of God, good, whose mandate is harmony and progress. This law, understood and applied, overrules every supposed material law that would obstruct progressive activity.
How, then, can one apply God's laws in business? How can one prove, for example, that the true purpose of business is to serve? To answer these questions, let us consider, in the light of Christian Science, three important aspects of business: activity, economy, and goodwill.
