Wherever we go, or into whatsoever home we enter, from the humble cot to the mansion of luxury, there confronts us now, more than in the past, a general unrest among mankind. Individuals have an indescribable, insatiable, hungering desire for a something they do not possess and cannot grasp, however persistently they may strive to obtain it. Many attend theatres, music halls, dances, concerts, and card clubs at stated intervals to pacify this longing. Others give themselves up to novel reading, to a continual round of social festivities, to money making, yet they are unsatisfied. Still others seek satisfaction from higher and purer sources. They attend church regularly; read and meditate on the Word of God; try hard to be content with, and resigned to, the dispensations of Providence; try to preserve a conscience void of offence; are faithful in the discharge of duties entrusted to them; do all in their power to make themselves as universally useful as possible; yet withal there remains this hungering and thirsting. Their striving brings them daily more burdensome tasks to perform, with less strength to do them. As time goes on, greater difficulties and trials encompass them, and the more they endeavor to extricate themselves, the thicker does the mist surround them.
The still, small voice of Christian Science shows us what this craving, hungering desire is for, and how we shall find it; fits us for it, and leads us to it. It whispers, There is a rest for God's children everywhere, under all conditions and circumstances; there need be no guess-work, no groping in the dark; "seek, and ye shall find," but remember this, seek earnestly, trustingly, honestly.
Man is hungering and thirsting for that which is beyond the knowledge of mortals; and that something is Peace; the peace that Jesus gave forth to all with whom he came in contact, that fortified his disciples, and stilled the tempest. This peace brings joy to the troubled heart to-day; gives strength to the weak, sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and heals all manner of sickness and disease among the people.
