Mrs. Eddy was announced to the audience by Dr. E. J. Foster Eddy. She commenced by saying:
Friends and Brethren: the biblical record of the great Nazarene, whose character we to-day commemorate, is scanty; but what is given puts to flight a single doubt as to the immortality of His words and works. Though written in a decaying language, His words can never pass away. They are inscribed upon the hearts of men; they are engraved upon eternity's tablets.
Divine Science has rolled away the stone from the sepulchre of our Lord, and there has risen to the awakened thought the majestic atonement of Divine Love. The at-one-ment with Christ has appeared, not through vicarious suffering, whereby the just obtain a pardon for the unjust, but through the eternal law of Justice wherein sinners suffer for their own sins. Repent; forsake sin. Love God, and keep His commandments. Thence to receive the reward of righteousness, salvation from sin; not through the death of a man —but a Divine Life which is our Redeemer.
