A Photograph was recently sent to the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy from Hannover, Germany, of so novel and significant a nature that we deem it worthy of notice. The photograph shows a section of a cemetery in that city the most conspicuous figure of which is a massive tombstone, almost square in shape, and presenting, certainly to the mortal eye, every appearance of lasting, if not eternal, solidity. On one of the curbstones of this tomb are engraven these words:—
"Dieses auf ewig erkaufle grab, darf nie geoffnet werden. 1782."
"This grave, bought for all eternity, is never to be opened. 1782."
Here surely was a laudable purpose to preserve intact throughout all time, nay even eternity, this sepulchre of mortal construction. But alas for human hopes and human power! This sepulchre, like the one so carefully sealed about nineteen hundred years ago near Jerusalem, was not destined to remain sealed. The photograph shows it to be a riven tomb.
