Article April 8, 1911 Issue

WATCHFULNESS

MARY THORN.

Like many other passages from the Scriptures, these words of Jesus, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch," had little significance to me, as applied to the every-day problems of life, until I studied Christian Science. A little experience which I had recently awoke me to a clearer realization of the meaning of this passage. The day following an outing with a party of friends, I awoke to find that I was suffering greatly from a sense of fatigue. Being the housekeeper at the time, I made a supreme effort to get the affairs of the house started for the day, then attempted to read the Lesson-Sermon. I read only part of it, however, before I gave up to a sense of weariness and lay down.

When I awoke a few hours later I found that my suffering had not lessened, and I began to work mentally to uncover the error which was holding me. While I was working, this thought came to me: "You do not need to know the error; you need to know the truth about error; namely, its nothingness." I then began to declare the power and presence of divine Love, and to realize that Truth is a law of destruction to every material belief and every form of fear. I was almost immediately relieved, so much so that I was able to get up and prepare lunch, and to eat something for the first time that day. After lunch, while continuing my mental work, the error that was holding me was uncovered.

The day before I had heard several friends relate experiences of fatigue. I had not realized at the time that I was giving any reality in thought to these experiences. It was not until a similar experience had turned me "to the arms of divine Love" (Science and Health, p. 322) that I awoke to this fact and knew for myself that there is no fatigue in divine Mind, nor in its manifestation; that weariness or exhaustion does not result from the operation of God's law, and therefore has no existence. Immediately following this uncovering, a sense of joy and strength came to me, and I was able to get up and go about my duties. The work which had been neglected in the morning was done quickly and easily, and before evening every trace of soreness and weakness had disappeared and I felt like a new creature. I then recalled the words of Paul to the Ephesians: "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind."

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