Article March 4, 1905 Issue

Everlasting Rest

C. L. E.

The human sense of a need of rest is apparent; and the question may be asked, What brings the most enduring rest? Mrs. Eddy has answered this question once and for all in her discovery of the law of all-harmonious action, and in Christian Science we learn that it is only divine Love which includes and imparts rest, and there is but one rest, the rest which God knows. God is Life, and God is Love, hence Love is Life: and the corollary is, — loving and living. Whatsoever other means mortals may try in order to extinguish weariness and exhaustion, such means will be found to be false prophets, offering that which, from their very nature, they can never supply.

Wherever materiality has place, there also is imperfection, for materiality and imperfection are synonyms, Spirituality and perfection are synonyms, and spirituality is the manifestation of God,—Spirit; Love,—hence to be spiritual, loving, is to have one God; and this mental condition includes the restfulness of all-harmonious Divinity. Science and Health gives the true explanation and definition of rest on page 519 (line 29). There is always opportunity to take part in "holy work," and perhaps one of the richest blessings diffused through Christian Science is the absolute certainty that work in Science is both holy and effectual. We have many opportunities afforded us by Divine wisdom of studying the spiritual laws of being, and each and all can so labor that every hour of the day, nay, every second, the suggestions and manifestations of evil will be "cast out," and the full appearing of Christ's eternal reign will be unfolded to universal view.

Can any material methods give us a rest from the discords of mortal mind, such as is found in the wholly spiritual rest imparted from divine Mind—a rest which not merely rests the individual, but which imparts itself to all who come within the influence of his thought? What is there more inspiring, reassuring, restful, than the very thought itself that we are working for eternity, the eternal destruction of error, the eternal unfoldment of good? As we let Truth think in us, God work through us, we become avenues for the healing Christ, we experience a rest unutterable and abiding in the degree to which the human yields to the divine. We have learned in Christian Science that humility and joy, this silent, ceaseless prayer, is genuine love, impersonal, purely spiritual, in the world but not of it. The true rest is the only rest: it blesses all, and it is the result of conscious, continous fruition. We should ever seek to understand the full import of the Scripture. "Rest in the Lord," and the realization of the true sense of rest must come through obedience to the demands of Truth and Love.

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