We are again in the midst of Eastertide. The Christian world is celebrating, in its various ways, the rising of Jesus from the sepulchre. Well may it commemorate this marvelous event; an event than which there is no greater miracle to mortal sense saving only the miracle of life. When the miracle of life is understood, the miracle of Jesus' resurrection from death to life is understood. When it is understood that God is Life and God is all; that there is and can be no life or existence apart from God; that all his ideas reflect Life, because they reflect God, then it is understood how Jesus was enabled to demonstrate Life by overcoming mortality; by triumphing over death and the grave. This is the sense of the resurrection taught by the Christian Science text-book, and it is the sense of the risen Christ that Christian Scientists are endeavoring to celebrate. Nor do they confine their endeavors to Eastertide. Their sincere effort is to keep constantly in consciousness the conception that God is their Life; that they have no other. This immaculate conception, truly and steadfastly adhered to, leads on to the resurrection. And what is the resurrection? We answer: Freedom from the trammels of the flesh. Freedom from the lusts of the carnal mind. Freedom from sin in all its hideous shapes. Freedom from the fear of death, which Jesus proved, by his resurrection, to be an illusion. As we ascend from the darkness of the sepulchre of sin, which is the only death, we reach up toward the Light of infinite Love, which is the only Life. God's idea, man, cannot be forever entombed in the sepulchre of sickness, sorrow, sin, and death. God's idea, man, is an eternal manifestation of Life.
Thus eloquently does our text-book speak of the resurrection:—
"Then lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge from his foes, and a place in which to solve the great problem of being. His three days' work in the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time. He proved Life to be deathless, and Love to be the master of hate. He met and mastered, on the basis of Christian Science, the power of Mind over matter, and over all the claims of medicine, surgery, and hygiene" (Science and Health, p. 44, New Ed.).
