MARY BAKER EDDY has given to the world an enlightening and thought-provoking definition of the word "resurrection." In "Science and Health with Key to the scriptures" (p. 593) she defines it as "spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding." It was the poet Tennyson who declared with conviction that
Men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.
The rising to a "new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence," is exemplified in Biblical history in the lives of prophets, apostles, and other great leaders, and may be observed in the experience of all forward-looking men and women in every age. This resurrection to new and higher spiritual concepts is always on steppingstones of the dead selves of material beliefs, understood as nothing, and hence overcome. In these resurrection experiences of humanity we find a steady movement onward and upward under the impulsion of infinite divine Love, and in them we may discern clear and unmistakable evidence of God's plan for His children —for those who, "having eyes," see and, "having ears," hear.
