Approaching her eightieth year, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, ever manifesting her love for verse, penned the following lines in a poem entitled "Easter Morn" (Poems, p. 31):
"Prolong the strain 'Christ risen!' Sad sense,
annoy No more the peace of Soul's sweet solitude!
Deep loneness, tear-filled tones of distant joy,
Depart! Glad Easter glows with gratitude—
Love's verdure veils the leaflet's wondrous
birth— Rich rays, rare footprints on the dust of earth."
Cannot students of Christian Science find in this one stanza texts for many sermons? When we prolong and amplify the theme "Christ risen!" what inspiration and uplift may flood consciousness! In Christian Science the risen Christ comes to the human heart whenever thought is lifted from belief in the reality of sin, discord, disease, to the recognition of spiritual, harmonious actuality. When the Christ, Truth, is lifted up in individual consciousness, does it not become "the resurrection and the life" even as Jesus promised? Then indeed may we bid the "sad sense" of materialism to "annoy no more the peace of Soul's sweet solitude," and "deep loneness, tear-filled tones of distant joy," are banished as was the gloom on that first resurrection morn.
