Editorial July 29, 1939 Issue

"He increaseth strength"

Duncan Sinclair

Mortals are constantly having to combat the sense of weakness. Every physical effort is believed to make its demands on one's strength; and rest is thought necessary for recuperation. It is similar with mental efforts. These, when prolonged, claim to tire one. Accordingly, mortals believe that time has to be given for relaxation, in order that mental vigor may return. This goes on intermittently during the entire span of mortal existence. Mortals toil physically and mentally, thus depleting their strength, which, they believe, has to be renewed by relaxation, change of activity, or the use of some material agent credited with recuperative properties.

It is wise to conserve one's energy; it is wise not to drive oneself, as the saying is, mentally or physically; it is wise to take a reasonable measure of relaxation. It is sensible to do these things, because of the material beliefs common to mortals. But, as the Christian Scientist well knows, all such devices for the conservation of one's strength are on the human plane, where man is regarded as mortal, strength is believed to be limited because subject to material so-called law, and mental power is thought of as dependent on brain, itself material and subject to material law; in other words, where strength, according to human belief, is largely if not altogether determined by material conditions.

The enemy, then, as Christian Science points out, which mortals have to contend with is materiality or material sense. How are they to combat successfully this foe to their strength, their vitality? What must they do to counteract its seeming power, and so retain or regain their vigor? Christian Science answers directly and unequivocally, by revealing to them the Science of being, which makes known not only the nature of the source of all strength, but the relation of man to this divine source.

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