A BUSINESS PROBLEM
Question—How can I solve this problem: For $5,000 I purchased the interest and good will of my associate in business on condition that he should not engage in the same business within one year. He violated this agreement and now has opened a place of business near me and has hired one of my best employees.

ANSWER—In the working out of your problem it is necessary to resolutely put out of your mind any thought of competition or any belief that anything can be taken away from you. Since you are dealing with the absolute truth it cannot know loss and has no competitor. Do not waste any time wondering what other people are doing, or worrying over the non-fulfillment of their contracts, but be sure that your own contract with the principle which you are seeking to demonstrate never becomes violated. This contract which you have made with the principle of your being is one wherein you have promised continuously to believe that there is an invisible and intelligent power daily guiding and sustaining your efforts, an All-knowing Mind motivating your purposes. Never count the strength of the enemy but look unto the One and your demonstration will be made.

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THE IDEA OF SACRIFICE
Question—Is it possible to heal one who is of the old faith— who apparently believes everything is possible with God— but that He sends illness, and that patient suffering teaches a great lesson?

ANSWER—Why should one who believes that God sends illness desire to be healed? It would seem that, if this belief were sincere, the sufferer would gladly undergo whatever discomfort God sent for so great a cause!
When the patient can be convinced that only health can (page 138) flow from the fountain-springs of Life, of God, he can be healed. But it will be necessary to point out to such a person the love of God, and all His goodness, which needs the suffering of no one to augment it. He must be shown that the well man is the glory of God because he manifests the health of God; that the happy, harmonious, prosperous man is the God-man, because he evinces these God-attributes of well-being. The idea of sacrifice must be lost entirely. God, in His completeness, needs and desires the sacrifice of no one thing or person or condition in order to gain another. In the measureless depth of His substance of all good, such a thing as sacrifice is unnecessary. Convince your patient that God is within HIM, in all His completeness, as Life Itself, enacting all the laws of His creative Selfhood, and it is possible to so enlighten him that a healing will be the result.

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