Article June 11, 1910 Issue

AMONG THE CHURCHES

Correspondence

Many churches of Christ, Scientist, responded to the expressed wish of King George V., that a memorial service be held by the churches in honor of the late King Edward VII. The following excerpts are taken from reports, received to date, of the remarks made by First Readers in connection with a specially prepared Lesson-Sermon.

Third Church, London:—

Friends, we are not gathered together today to grieve as the world grieves at the passing of a great king, but rather to show, as Jesus also showed, our human sympathy with a nation's sorrow. The teaching of Christian Science respecting the unreality of death and the glorious reality of Life, has led us to understand that all good is eternal. Hence we know that the thoughts and hopes for "peace and good will to all men" which marked the life of him whom we call "Edward the Peacemaker,"—these thoughts and hopes cannot die; they have not passed away, but will live eternally. They will bring forth fruit in due season, yea, even to the utmost parts of the earth. The desire for peace is the aspiration of love, and we who are daily striving to forget "those things which are behind," and who are reaching "forth unto those things which are before." may well meet to honor those ideals which have lifted up a standard of peace to the people. We may well assemble in solemn sympathy, in loving recognition of a king whose reign has helped to herald the thought of "a new heaven and a new earth," where "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying;" a king through whose earnest example and work has been brought nearer to men's minds that "great city" of which it is written, "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it."

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