Article April 8, 1905 Issue

True Rest

M. ETHEL WHITCOMB.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Hebrews, 4 : 9.

Thousands of weary hearts have repeated this passage of Scripture and have cried out for the promised rest. Common theory says. Wait patiently, tired hearts, death will some day release you; then work will cease and you will enter heaven, the place of rest. Christian Science, reversing this, saith, Come, weary ones, and learn that work is joy, that heaven is present, and all the longed-for rest is here and now.

Before I heard the glad tidings of Christian Science I would collapse every few months and be carried away for rest; seeking, but not then knowing the rest which only the understanding of God can bring. Later, I learned that it is not in stopping work and in going away that man finds abiding rest but in learning how to do his work in harmony with the divine Principle of life; for work correctly done brings no burden. It is the death of the false and untrue and not the death of man that brings to him rest.

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