Article August 12, 1944 Issue

True Exercise

MILDRED WEILER

Is exercise essential for a Christian Scientist? Yes, emphatically; but this exercise is primarily the use of Mind's faculties, not of muscles.

A Christian Scientist, who became a member of a hiking club in order to enjoy recreation out-of-doors, soon found her companions believed that physical exercise would benefit them by supplying renewed energy and vitality, reducing weight, or curing an ailment; and with the common contrariness of human theories would also react to produce fatigue, stiffness, and pain. Much of the conversation was along these lines.

In disappointment that little was said about the joy of being in the great outdoors, she was about to resign membership when the words of Jesus, "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world," came to her thought and led her to search out what exercise should mean to a Christian Scientist.

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