Editorial August 23, 1941 Issue

Eliminating Fatigue

Alfred Pittman

Students of Christian Science generally find as they progress in understanding that they are no longer as subject to weariness as they once were. They do not become less active. Usually it can be seen that they accomplish more than before. But with this increase in usefulness, strange as the fact might formerly have seemed to them, they experience less fatigue, and often are scarcely troubled by it at all.

Christian Science fully explains this happy circumstance. To material sense, everything seems to wear out through action; and if the action is greater, the wearing process is usually accelerated. But this material appearance, Christian Science shows to be but a mistaken view of reality. The only real action is revealed in Science as that of divine Mind, God. This is the action which man, God's likeness, expresses; and it knows no wearing-out process. It is completely free from friction, resistance, or anything that could make for deterioration or fatigue. It is the action of true substance, Spirit, which Mary Baker Eddy defines in part as "that which is eternal and incapable of discord and decay" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468).

"Hast thou not known?" writes the author of the fortieth chapter of Isaiah; "hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?" The prophet was clearly pointing to a fact of great importance, a fact both scientific and religious; and Mrs. Eddy re-emphasizes and further clarifies this fact where she writes (ibid., p. 519): "God rests in action. Imparting has not impoverished, can never impoverish, the divine Mind." It is in the nature of Mind to be ceaselessly active, and yet ceaselessly at peace, at rest. Its action is rest.

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