The wrong done another reacts most heavily against one's self. Right adjusts the balance sooner or later. Sooner think to make evil good, than to benefit yourself by injuring others. Man's moral mercury, rising or falling, registers his healing ability.
To “come out from the world and be separate,” as the Scriptures command, is to incur society's frown; but, more than its flatteries, society's scorn enables one to be Christian. Losing her crucifix, the Catholic girl said, “I have nothing left but Christ.” “If God is for us, who can be against us?”
To fall away from Truth in times of persecution shows that we never understood Truth. From the bridal-chamber of Wisdom there will come the warning, “Ye cannot enter now.” Unimproved opportunities must rebuke us when we would claim suddenly the benefits of an experience that is not ours, attempting to reap the harvest we have not sown, and to enter unlawfully into the labors of others. Truth often remains unsought until, suffering severely from error, we seek this remedy for human woe.
You say, “Toil fatigues me.” But what is this you or me? Is it muscle or mind? Which one is tired and so speaks? Without mind, could the muscles be tired? Do the muscles talk, or do you talk for them? Matter is non-intelligent. Mortal mind does the talking, and that which affirms it to be tired first made it so.
The immortal Divine Mind is the only lawgiver. Human mind arouses mortal and discordant beliefs. The scientific and permanent remedy for fatigue is to learn the power of Mind over any illusion of weariness in matter, in which there is really no sensation, and so destroy this illusion.
