Article May 25, 1946 Issue

Resting in Action

GLENN E. DOUGLAS

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt. 11:28). This compassionate invitation of the Christ is extended to us today as surely as it was to those who were within hearing of the Master's voice. Those who in sincerity seek the Christ, the true idea of God and man, find real rest and spiritual refreshment. This rest, which is a state of active spiritual tranquillity, results from a calm awareness of Truth. It is not to be found in matter, in lethargic idleness, in mesmeric sleep, or in the illusion of death. Speaking from experience as well as from divine revelation, our inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 218), "The consciousness of Truth rests us more than hours of repose in unconsciousness."

Isaiah likewise encourages us to turn to God, the source of all good, for the renewal of strength in the familiar passage which reads (Isa. 40:31), "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

When the truth about God and man's relationship to Him is revealed to us, let us humbly and trustingly accept it with the joyous expectation that the truth realized will destroy the enervating errors of material sense. Let us not reject it with some statement such as, "I know that in reality God is my strength, but ...," and then argue for the validity of the errors of material sense testimony, thus reversing in belief the statements of truth which we have made. How often the expressions "in reality" and "the real man" are used in such a manner as to indicate that the speaker believes he is a mortal living apart from God in a material universe from which he hopes to escape at some future time, through death perhaps, at which time he will become a "real man" in God's image and likeness.

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