Article May 11, 1912 Issue

FINDING REST

R. M. STROTHER.

When the Master said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," he spoke for Christ, Truth, as he declared. "I can of mine own self [the corporeal Jesus] do nothing." Christ Jesus gave to mankind the right idea of God, man, and the universe, the truth about substance, law, power, and action, the right idea about everything. To gain the true idea is to find our true selfhood, which Paul says, in his epistle to the Colossians, is "Christ in you, the hope of glory." To come into the understanding which reveals the fact that God and His thoughts, Mind and its ideas, constitute the sum total of being, enables us to see that it is good, wholly spiritual, perfect, complete, imperishable, and harmonious. It is this spiritual understanding, or right knowledge of God and of His universe, which lifts the burden and destroys the belief of being heavy laden, by establishing in our consciousness a sense of harmony and of the ever-presence and all-power of God, good. God does not impose burdens upon His offspring, for man's God-given inheritance is liberty, peace, joy, and other fruits of the Spirit.

"Mind is God" (Science and Health, p. 469); and the one infinite, all-inclusive Mind which is the source and primal cause of all that is actual and real and good, includes and animates nothing unlike itself, nothing that is not eternally good, eternally perfect, eternally harmonious and indestructible. It then follows, that whatever presents itself as something which is not good, or which is not included in the one Mind, is necessarily unreal, and through this spiritual or right understanding of God we find escape from false belief, and rest.

Through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, we learn that all being is consciousness, not matter; therefore man is consciousness, not matter. Consciousness includes the activity of right ideas, of right thoughts, and these thoughts are always externalized in right conditions, socially, physically, and otherwise. Everything of which we can conceive existed first as thought or in thought; all that we see is simply thought externalized, and thought being the fruit-bearer, every thought bearing fruit after its kind, it is optional with us whether we shall "toil along the climbing way with painful step and slow," heavily laden with the product of erroneous thoughts, or seek the Christ and find rest here and now. In our Hymnal we read,—

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