SEVERAL YEARS AGO AT EASTER, when visiting Salisbury Cathedral in England, I found one of the hymns sung by the huge congregation to be tremendously moving. The voices of these 21st-century Christians, resonating among massive stone pillars and arches, seemed almost to be blending with the voices of all those who had worshipped there centuries before.
It was as though the ancient, vaulted nave was filled with the soaring of the human spirit. It was a welling up of humanity's deepest, intuitive affirmation that life is greater than death, that somehow in some way, just as the Bible promises, "Death is swallowed up in victory" (I Cor. 15:54).
I came away valuing more than ever the way Christian Science sustains this intuition and great hope of humanity. It does so by providing fresh spiritual perceptions and reasoning and new experiences of the healing effect today of the same Christ-principle that was at work in Jesus' life. The Christ Science goes on strengthening faith regardless of the supposedly increasing authority and domination of 21st-century materialism.
