Of all the words which have brought hope and courage to the human heart, the sweetest are these of Christ Jesus, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." This is also the message of Christian Science. There is a remedy for every discordant condition of human experience, and it need not be said that any man is without hope and without God in the world. Christian Science points the way and says to all men, Come, and you will learn from experience that the understanding of Truth and Love will remedy discord, giving "beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."
In the search for health and happiness the experiences of mortals have been many and varied. The tendency has been to seek a material remedy for discord and to make matter the basis of harmony and prosperity. Even though mortals have accepted the testimony of the material senses concerning man's present existence and the things which tend to make that existence discordant or harmonious, there is, and always has been, an abiding faith in the reality and permanence of spiritual things. It is an essential idea of all religious teaching that spiritual things are more enduring than the things which are recognized by the corporeal senses and considered so necessary to man's present well-being. Human faith in the reality and permanence of that which is unseen, and we may say in a very large degree unknown, is justified by the words of the Master, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."
For several decades many religious leaders and teachers have been laboring for and expecting a spiritual awakening such as has not been, experienced during recent centuries. Human expectations are not always realized and the manner of Truth's appearing is seldom in accord with preconceived opinions, but the effort for good is rewarded and man's progress Spiritward is in proportion to his obedience to the unerring law of God.
