WHAT is repose? Repose is not lazy inaction or sluggishness; it is freedom from fretting. It is calm thinking—thought that is at peace. Repose is not release from right action, but freedom from the false sense of action which wearies. Do we fret; are we sluggish; do we think that some inescapable thing wearies us? Then let us rouse ourselves into true repose. Mrs. Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 128), "A knowledge of the Science of being develops the latent abilities and possibilities of man."
It is interesting to think of Peter in prison, as recorded in the twelfth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Herod had put him there, and he was bound with two chains. Do any of us think that we are chained where we do not wish to be, through environment, or circumstances, or, perhaps, temperamental characteristics? Let us study how Peter was led out of the prison.
In those never-to-be-forgotten days when Christ Jesus, the great Way shower, walked and talked with his disciples, they had listened to his teaching about God and man and the kingdom of heaven. Jesus had told them more about God than men had ever before known; and he had shown them that this new gospel would be resisted, saying to a little group, including Peter, "But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost."
