Editorial April 4, 1959 Issue

"THY SLEEP SHALL BE SWEET"

Harold Molter

It is a generally accepted belief that every individual requires a certain amount of sleep each night. Whether one has engaged in a strenuous physical activity or not, the material body and consciousness call for rest.

It is recorded that Christ Jesus told his disciples to take their rest after their unsuccessful attempts to watch with him in the garden of Gethsemane. And it is also related that the Master slept during a storm while he was being transported by his disciples across a lake.

The Christian Scientist does not ignore the material body, but takes proper care of it, providing it with food and rest. He is alert not to let himself be governed by the generally accepted beliefs about material existence, including the need for bodily and mental rest, but he exercises dominion over the false claims of the carnal mind.

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