Article June 5, 1926 Issue

Rest

MARY J. TURNER

THE writer of Hebrews says, "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." What is "rest"; and who are "the people of God"? These questions are answered clearly and concisely in Christian Science.

The world thinks of rest as surcease from activity, bodily or mental. Does not so-called mortal mind always imagine it needs rest after a period of labor? But we learn in Christian Science that true rest is spiritual, and that as long as we are thinking good thoughts we are resting. If we have a problem to meet, the solution of which seems difficult, as Christian Scientists we never lose the thought that God is all-powerful and ever present. Then when we have overcome the belief in a power apart from God, do we not rest in our gratitude for the good thoughts that have come to us? After a struggle with error, and its destruction, whatever phase it may have assumed, "there remaineth therefore a rest" for us—the reward that comes for work well done.

We are not to look at our problems as a struggle with anything real; we have only to wrestle with false beliefs. We should be still, and know that of ourselves we can do nothing. Sometimes we find ourselves apparently sinking deeper into the sea of error because we are struggling too hard, when all we need to do is to let go—to know that God's work is already done. We need to realize that "the people of God" include all men. All are the children of God; but how often mortal mind tries to tell us that some are the children of the so-called evil one! Man is the idea of Mind; hence his perfection. We must constantly realize this; we must always look to divine Mind and see the perfect man as God's image and likeness.

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