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."

It is surely important for Christian Scientists to understand and reject the arguments of mortal mind pressure and of fear and tension so prevalent today. Drive and pressure are elements or manifestations of the human will, and they will disappear as one understands that the will of God is one—all-inclusive, all-embracing, and all-governing— and that man's true being unfolds in accordance with that will. Jesus, constantly conforming to God's will, presented an example of spiritual poise and dominion over afflictive and burdensome conditions. Nothing could turn him from the even tenor of his way. The false testimony of the material senses could not disturb or obstruct his consciousness of the reality of being. His works were accomplished through and by his peaceful reflection and realization of God's allness and omnipotence.

Christian Science uncovers the pride of human accomplishment and reveals its false basis. In Science we see that all good that appears is the expression of unfolding infinity. In the measure that one apprehends this fact and accepts divine unfoldment as his true, conscious being, everything necessary to his harmony and welfare is and should be evidenced without wearisome labor and effort. We thereby learn and demonstrate something of Spirit's divine energies.

When one lets the law of God govern and be reflected in his business and other activities, personal responsibility and fear necessarily disappear. It is well known that many businessmen, governed by a false sense of personal energy, are prone to drive themselves; but when one is driving or being driven, there is always pressure and tension. It is not surprising, then, that these mental characteristics find expression on the human body in various forms of physical belief—in weariness and fatigue. Christian Science enables one to recognize these tendencies and then take the spiritual, scientific steps to correct them.

Our textbook says (p. 217), "The scientific and permanent remedy for fatigue is to learn the power of Mind over the body or any illusion of physical weariness, and so destroy this illusion, for matter cannot be weary and heavy-laden." And continuing on the next page our Leader says: "The Scriptures say, 'They that wait upon the Lord ... shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.' The meaning of that passage is not perverted by applying it literally to moments of fatigue, for the moral and physical are as one in their results. When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease."

When Jesus said, "Come unto me,.... and I will give you rest," he obviously meant that one must come unto the Christ, the understanding of man's true selfhood, which he exemplified and which Christian Science also reveals. In this knowledge of true being, man is seen as the manifestation and unfoldment of limitless spiritual power, strength, and energy. In this realization all sense of fatigue and weariness is lost, and rest is scientifically demonstrated.

Mortal mind action is not action at all, and so-called mortal mind thinking is not true thought. It is always false belief, error, and there is no mortal mind. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (pp. 519, 520): "God rests in action. Imparting has not impoverished, can never impoverish, the divine Mind. No exhaustion follows the action of this Mind, according to the apprehension of divine Science. The highest and sweetest rest, even from a human standpoint, is in holy work." Then, when one is rightly active, may he not legitimately and scientifically say, "I have had and am having an active, busy day, and therefore I am rested"?

In Christian Science, man is recognized as the ever-unfolding and infinite expression of Mind. This means that Mind is accomplishing all, always acting independently of and without any relationship to or expenditure of human energy. Christian Science recognizes the wholly spiritual nature of man. It declares that all true being is blessedly peaceful, and therefore restful. The pressure, planning, outlining, and drive of human will and mortal belief have no place and are not identified with man and his certain fulfillment of the divine purpose.

Richard J. Davis