Editorial May 31, 1913 Issue

BURDEN BEARING

Archibald McLellan

"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden," said the gentle Master, "and I will give you rest." This loving invitation, so truly sympathetic in its appreciation of the need of humanity to be relieved of its self-imposed burdens of sickness, sorrow, and sin, of discord of every kind, confirms David's confident assurance, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee," and refutes once and for all any thought that these burdens are to be submitted to in either bitter reviling against or dumb resignation to the supposed will of God.

If Christian Science had done nothing else than to clear away this misapprehension that an all-loving Father could in a spirit of anger or revenge impose upon His children these burdens so grievous to bear, it would have amply justified its coming to the children of men, bringing a new and clearer sense of our elder brother's declaration that it is not the will of the Father that any of His little ones should perish. But it has done more than this in that it has demonstrated, in some measure at least, that brotherhood of man for which the ages have clamored and yet have done so little to develop,—the regard of the strong for the weak. In Christian Science, as Mrs. Eddy expresses it in Science and Health (p. 518), "the rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good."

Such is the true spirit of Christian Science, the continuance of that loving ministry of the Master to the sick and afflicted, to those laboring with a sense of sorrow or sin, and finding one's own burden lightened in lifting the weight from another bending beneath his weary load. It was the prayer of the beloved Leader of Christian Science, as she tells us in one of her hymns (Poems, p. 13),—

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