Editorial March 31, 1923 Issue

The Resurrection Morn

Duncan Sinclair

OVER nineteen centuries ago one of the greatest wonders took place ever recorded in the history of mankind,—Christ Jesus overcame the belief of death, and came forth from the tomb. It was a mighty act, not the result of some fortuitous combination of human desire and divine prerogative, but the outcome of years of consecration to Truth and obedience to spiritual law. Born of the Virgin Mary, the child Jesus grew stronger with the years in the knowledge of his Father, God; and his effort throughout the whole of his earthly life was to show to mankind the nature of God and man, and the unique relationship existing between them. To Christ Jesus, God was Spirit and Truth and Love, and God was infinite; accordingly, matter and evil were unreal. That is what the Nazarene taught and demonstrated to the world in his miracles, in his resurrection, and in his ascension.

Every healing Jesus performed testified to the allness of God, and to the unreality of matter or evil. Otherwise, what explanation is there for the wonders he wrought, as for instance, the instantaneous healing of palsy and leprosy and hemorrhage? It was his marvelously clear understanding of the allness of good that dispelled the mental illusions of the suffering people who came to him for help, healing the effects which these illusions seemed to produce on their bodies. And in the raising from the dead of Jairus' daughter, the son of the widow of Nain, and Lazarus, ar we not beholding the same spiritual understanding at work which should afterwards enable him to overcome the belief of death for himself? Assuredly.

Nothing is surer than that Christ Jesus submitted to crucifixion in order to prove to the world of men, for all time, the unreality of death. But one step remained for him to take thereafter,—the ascension. And the ascension, when "he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven," took place the moment he had risen entirely above, or had completely overcome, the belief in the reality of matter or evil. Material sense had persistently persecuted his innocency,—the spiritual idea of Love which he understood and so wonderfully exemplified,—to the point of believing that it had destroyed him on the cross. But it was utterly confounded when the stone was rolled away by the divine power which he reflected; and he came forth with the same body he had when he previously went about among the people. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 43), Mrs. Eddy says of the resurrection: "Love must triumph over hate. Truth and Life must seal the victory over error and death, before the thorns can be laid aside for a crown, the benediction follow, 'Well done, good and faithful servant,' and the supremacy of Spirit be demonstrated."

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