Article June 13, 1901 Issue

Drudgery

BY A. R. W.

One morning, while doing some work which I considered drudgery, I found relief from pain and weariness in this thought, "Whatever it is your duty to do, can be done without harm to yourself" (Science and Health, p. 384).

As I went with grateful heart about my work this sentence came to me from "Retrospection and Introspection," p. 36, "He must be ours practically, guiding our every thought and action; else we cannot understand the omnipresence of Good sufficiently to demonstrate, even in part, the Science of the perfect Mind and divine healing."

In the light of this shining sentence I saw that to admit there was drudgery was to do one of two things: either to call work done with our tender loving Father drudgery, which is blasphemy, or to say that we can do work apart from Him, which is idolatry.

And then this verse grew clear to me, "Who can understand his errors? cleanse Thou me from secret faults." Surely this was a secret fault, so hidden, so secure in its disguise, that it had walked with me for years unrecognized.

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