Article March 26, 1921 Issue

"Come unto me"

PEARL LOUISE LONG

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Such was the great invitation extended to tired humanity by Jesus the Christ. To all suffering from the burdens of wrong thinking, wearied from laboring under false beliefs and illusions, here a door of escape is opened wide. "And I will give you rest." The rest is yours and mine to the extent that we accept the Master's invitation, "Come unto me," and, "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me." Looking away from the material ways of finding rest and surcease, which fail us in times of need, we turn to God and learn of His ways. We turn to divine Love and find harmony and deliverance and rest. After many years of servitude to mortal mind and its material laws of bondage, after many fruitless trials of this thing and that thing, we may find our burdens are still with us. Each much recommended material cure has failed to meet our need, and in despair we look for something else.

Christian Science teaches us the utter nothingness of theories put together by mortal man, and of human guesswork about man's welfare and happiness, and brings to light the absolute certainty of the real man's harmony and freedom as the child of God, subject to divine Principle only. So when the discouraged one turns from material laws to God's law of harmony, he finds, perhaps to his surprise, something inviting and peaceful in the atmosphere of the truth, and after further investigation he grows hopeful and casts his burden at the feet of Truth and bears a song away.

Only through relying radically on God, good, can we prove our progress peaceful and restful. When we have learned to trust our Father-Mother God even as a little child trusts his earthly parents, our tumbles will be less frequent and severe. When a small child realizes the presence of his parent, his fear immediately vanishes and he knows full well that he is safe from what to his childish fancy might harm him. He is at rest in the loving protection of his parent. He knows that he abides safely. The earthly parent does everything possible for the good of his child, but our heavenly Father does even more, and only the things for his welfare and advancement. Thus our way grows brighter and brighter and a man proves that "the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear." As we turn to God and accept divine good as our guardian, we do abide securely and undisturbed. As we do this wholly and completely, we are hearing the call, "Come unto me," and are guided "into the land of Christian Science," as Mrs. Eddy expresses it on page 226 of Science and Health, where she says, "I saw before me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the wilderness; but I pressed on through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged."

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