Editorial February 4, 1961 Issue

Release from Weariness

Helen Wood Bauman

There is a cure for weariness, and it is found in Christian Science. This Science makes it possible for one who has become fatigued to regain his normal strength swiftly, and it shows one how to avoid fatigue in the first place. Christ Jesus, whose teachings underlie those of Christian Science, gave an example of the healing of weariness when he drew near to Sychar, a Samaritan city, on his way from Judea to Galilee. We learn from the fourth chapter of John that the Master came to Jacob's well and "being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well."

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus asked her to give him drink. In the momentous conversation that followed, he told her of living water which he could have given her, water that would quench thirst forever— "water springing up into everlasting life." Thus he figuratively described the constant refreshment which Christliness gives to consciousness. Later in this chapter we read that the disciples urged Jesus to eat and that he replied, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." His further explanation was, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work."

To do the will of God is to embody the motive power of divine Mind. To act through human will is to limit the amount of vigor that one believes he possesses and thus to become the victim of his own belief. Weariness is merely a suggested physical sensation. The real man, made in God's likeness and therefore spiritual, is wholly motivated by the divine will, which is spontaneous in strength and restful in sensation.

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