Do you remember a special moment of spiritual awakening that may have come after days or even years of prayer? A moment when the desert of human hopes blossomed, and what had seemed a heavy belief of sin or sickness was proved powerless? This was a sabbath day! Remember it and keep it holy!
Those days of struggling to get out of the belief of living in matter may seem long and difficult, but our day of rest in Truth does come. Mrs. Eddy writes of Joshua and his band before the walls of Jericho, "They went seven times around these walls, the seven times corresponding to the seven days of creation: the six days are to find out the nothingness of matter; the seventh is the day of rest, when it is found that evil is naught and good is all."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 279.
The Scriptures report several instances where those who communed with God marked the place and gave it a special name. Jacob dreamed of a ladder that reached from earth to heaven with angels of God on it, and revered this experience, saying, "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not." The account tells us, "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it."Gen. 28:16, 18. Later he returned to that place and built an altar to God there.See 35: 1-3.
