Among the many wonderful lessons given us by the Hebrew seers, none is of more vital interest to Christian Scientists than that found in the thirty-seventh chapter of Ezekiel, in which the prophet tells his vision of a valley of dry bones that are made to feel the life-giving power of Spirit. It is an object-lesson of the resurrection toward which all human hope and faith have turned with a longing that refuses to be stifled, and that can be satisfied only as good is known to be spiritual and therefore immortal. The very fact that this longing for a resurrection of what is dear, is universal, and that even the invasion of death into a home only quickens the desire and hope for it, this surely points to the fulfilment of the hope when the way to it shall be understood.
Whether we read nature's lessons aright or not, the fact remains that they ever tell the story of the indestructibility of good, even though they be told
Noiselessly as the springtime
Her crown of verdure weaves,
And all the trees on all the hills
Open their thousand leaves.
