We have to announce in this issue of the Journal the passing on of the Rev. David Augustus Easton, pastor of the Mother Church. This event, which from the mortal standpoint is a painful one, occurred on Thursday the first day of March last. An ailment which is universally pronounced by the medical profession to be incurable, which had been upon him for several years, and of which all who knew him hoped he had been healed, asserted itself, although as all know who are familiar with the facts, he struggled most valiantly against it. We may rest in the assurance, however, that no one not having the understanding of the law of divine health which he had, could have stood in the pulpit sabbath after sabbath, defying the claim, when every human law and medical edict would have declared him wholly unable to do so.
While we cannot but deplore the fact that, because of the apparent separation, he has ceased to be the pastor of the Mother Church, yet we know that his mission is not ended by reason of the phenomenon which has been presented to our material senses. We know that as time goes on, lie will progress from demonstration to demonstration, and that his labors and experience in the line of Divine Science are with him now to cheer and guide into greater light and clearer discernment of the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus. We know that notwithstanding the appearance to the contrary because of our limited mortal perception, not one whit of the real man, the God-born ego, is lost.
His work in the Mother Church as pastor extended over a period of a little less than one year, yet during that time he endeared himself to the large congregation, and impressed all with his earnestness and sincerity in behalf of the great Cause he had espoused, and which had become so dear to him that he had given up all earthly hopes and ambitions to consecrate himself wholly to it. Under his ministrations the Church continued to grow and flourish, and the seed sown, the germs of Truth implanted, will not fail to bear in the unfolding future, rich and abundant fruitage.
