Article February 4, 1950 Issue

RELAXATION FROM PHYSICAL STRAIN

EVERETT EDGAR KING

Among the errors that cause strain or tension are fear and worry arising from the belief of limited resources, inability to meet obligations, or lack of time to perform assignments of the day-by-day experience. Then, too, fear of sickness in some form, of uncertainty over family or business relations, and of untoward conditions that demand consideration and adjustment is a contributing factor in bringing on mental and therefore physical disturbances.

Since God and man coexist as Father and son, Principle and idea, cause and effect, and since like produces like, man must be perfect because God is perfect. As authority for this, we find in the very first chapter of the Bible the statement (verses 26, 31): "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. ... And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Because weariness and strain, disease and distress, and all other manifestations of evil are not of God and have no abiding place in divine Principle, they cannot be reflected by God's perfect expression, man.

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy further elucidates the perfection of being (p. 548): "In this Science, we discover man in the image and likeness of God. We see that man has never lost his spiritual estate and his eternal harmony." At another place in the same textbook she writes (p. 231): "God is not the author of mortal discords. Therefore we accept the conclusion that discords have only a fabulous existence, are mortal beliefs which divine Truth and Love destroy." In the last analysis, then, evil appears only as negative beliefs, which are simply illusions, the product of corporeal sense.

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