Editorial September 22, 1951 Issue

REST IN ACTION

Richard J. Davis

The tender persuasion of the Master's words is as comforting and compelling today as it was when he uttered them (Matt. 11: 28–30): "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."

The mortally mental world picture today would have one accept confusion and discouragement as real. Mortal mind is tired; the world of materiality is tired. But futility, frustration, and weariness are the inevitable end of all things mortal. When one gains an understanding of Christian Science, however, he begins to give up his sense of human effort and labor, of push and drive, and learns to place the source of his strength, energy, and achievement where it belongs, with God, divine Mind, of whom man in Science is the ever-unfolding manifestation.

Referring to this, Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 387 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Because mortal mind is kept active, must it pay the penalty in a softened brain? Who dares to say that actual Mind can be overworked? When we reach our limits of mental endurance, we conclude that intellectual labor has been carried sufficiently far; but when we realize that immortal Mind is ever active, and that spiritual energies can neither wear out nor can so-called material law trespass upon God-given powers and resources, we are able to rest in Truth, refreshed by the assurances of immortality, opposed to mortality."

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