"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God." Such was Paul's exhortation (Col. 3:1), and its truth challenges us today. Indeed, because of the destructive forces that seem to be rampant, a true concept of the risen Christ is the most important subject in the world today, for it throws light on the supreme fact—Life!
Students of Christian Science do not commemorate just one day in the year in recognition of the risen Christ, for they know that Easter is the continuous resurrection of thought in individual experience to the spiritual sense of being. Although many loyal Christians have desired to have a part in the resurrection, they have not known how this could be accomplished. Outward ritual was no aid to those who sincerely desired to abstain from material thinking and to turn thought Godward, prerequisites to a clearer perception of God as Life eternal.
Christian Science teaches that spiritual man is forever boundless, free, and at one with the Father. Therefore, he is never in matter and cannot be resurrected from matter. This knowledge of the real man's indestructibility gives to the one in the foxhole, at some outpost in no man's land, in the air, on the ground, on the sea and under the sea, an answer to the challenge, "In the place where you now find yourself, is there not an opportunity to solve the great problem of being as did the Master?" That many individuals today are answering this challenge there is no doubt. They are realizing such an attainment to be possible through holding in thought noble ideals and putting them daily into practice. Such ideals cannot be buried; they outlive the horrors and tragedies of battlefields.
