Charnel house exit

NATHAN A. TALBOT

Your thoughts today should be alive with purpose. They should be brimming with aspiration. If they aren't, that is, if we don't feel an animating power giving direction, design, meaning, to our sense of existence, there may be some question as to how alive we really are.

To the extent that we let the Christ animate us with spiritual purpose (and therefore do more than just mark time in the world), we are not allowing ourselves to be held in something of a charnel house—a building or vault where bodies are stored. Every mortal needs to be fully resurrected from this above-ground burial, this sin of inaction. If we ever feel buried in the lethargy of material-mindedness, we need to be stirred into action. We need the Christ.

Divine Science is the Comforter promised by the Master, Christ Jesus. It is the reappearing of Christ to this age. The Christ is destined to awaken us out of the deadness of materialism. Mrs. Eddy links divine metaphysics to Christ when she says of it, "... it is the divine nature of God, which belongs not to a dispensation now ended, but is ever present, casting out evils, healing the sick, and raising the dead—resurrecting individuals buried above-ground in material sense."^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 110.}

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