Editorial May 14, 1949 Issue

TIRELESS MANHOOD

Helen Wood Bauman

A message which God imparted through the prophet Isaiah was the revelation of a tireless God and a tireless manhood (40:28-31). Here the creator proclaimed Himself to be one who "fainteth not, neither is weary," and those who serve Him as invigorated by their Maker. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength," the message ran. "They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

The fact that one's strength is in proportion to his spirituality is reiterated by Mary Baker Eddy in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" where she admonishes students of Christian Science (p. 254): "Watch, pray, demonstrate. Released from materialism, you shall run and not be weary, walk and not faint." Mrs. Eddy was released from materialism by her discovery that life and intelligence are not in matter, but have their source in God, inexhaustible divine Mind. The tirelessness of her efforts to save mankind from sinful mortal sense, to still pain, purify consciousness, and reveal Truth companioned the unselfed nature of her motives. Her unwearied inspiration mirrored her unity with divine Love.

Release from materialism comes as one grasps the power-imbued fact of Science that man is not a mortal personality, but a divine emanation of Mind—not vague or nebulous because incorporeal, but distinct and substantial because the embodiment of immutable currents of good. Man can never be weary, for his origin is exhaustless Life. The elements he is made of—consciousness, joy, wisdom, truthfulness, love—pour forth from the creator in ceaseless glory as Love's individualization. The tirelessness of spiritual man's energies results from his unseverable unity with God, the source of all good. In sharp contrast, the fluctuating energies of mortals act smartly for a period of time and then, like those of a mechanical toy, which has no source of power outside itself, slow up and come to a stop in decrepitude and death.

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