Article May 9, 1959 Issue

THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH

DOLLY JANE STEFANSON

"Muscles are not self-acting. If mind does not move them, they are motionless. Hence the great fact that Mind alone enlarges and empowers man through its mandate,—by reason of its demand for and supply of power." So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 199 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

To one schooled in physiology, this statement comes as a startling thought. It is startling even to one who has not had this schooling, for the newspapers, the radio and television broadcasts, are constantly referring to the necessity for daily exercise to maintain health and strength, for vitamins to obtain the energy to do the exercise, and then for liniments to relieve muscular soreness from too much of this exercise.

Sooner or later we all must decide whether our strength comes from muscles or from God, divine Mind. Our Leader tells us (ibid., p. 167), "It is not wise to take a halting and half-way position or to expect to work equally with Spirit and matter, Truth and error." We cannot logically declare in one instance that matter has no intelligence and then say in the next that our muscles are stiff and sore because we used them too much or that they are flabby because we use them too little. It is mortal mind, not divine Mind, that tells us that muscles are tired, rigid, injured.

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