Editorial April 15, 1922 Issue

Resurrection

Ella W. Hoag

"Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.... For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." So spoke Paul when he was preaching the fact of eternal life to the people of his day, and his words have been iterated and reiterated times without number. Many have been the heart-longings to understand their meaning and just what relation Jesus' marvelous resurrection bore to the lives of men. They have, however, little comprehended its practical significance or what real connection it could have with the truth that "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."

To be sure, men have accepted many explanations in regard to the resurrection; they have believed many dogmas concerning it. But what about assured advantages therefrom? Ah! those were always left for realization to some indefinite future. Luther wrote: "Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection not in books alone but in every leaf in Springtime." So it was always a "promise," a something men might be assured of after passing through an experience called death, an eternal life to be realized at some far distant day, even though Paul had also preached of Christ Jesus that he "hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light."

It remained for Christian Science to reveal completely what blessedness Jesus' resurrection includes for all mankind. It is Christian Science which teaches us to apprehend the truth Jesus demonstrated in the resurrection,—the truth of man's indestructible, spiritual existence as the child of God. This understanding awakens us to see this tremendous demonstration of Jesus as the proof of life eternal here and now, and shows us that, if we will accept this truth of spiritual being and yield to its demands, we too may have part in the resurrection.

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