Article April 3, 1926 Issue

Our Resurrection

JOSEPHINE MEADOR

Christian Science gives us a broader, deeper understanding of every phase of life. At the Easter season it is helpful and illuminating to make a study of the resurrection and the ascension. In the Glossary of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 593), our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us the definition of "resurrection" as, "Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding." We understand, therefore, that Easter should not be only an especial season to us, but a daily lifting of thought above all materiality to the contemplation of God as Life and Truth and Love. Mrs. Eddy further explains (ibid., p. 292) that "Truth will be to us 'the resurrection and the life' only as it destroys all error and the belief that Mind, the only immortality of man, can be fettered by the body, and Life be controlled by death."

What a joy it is to know that divine Mind cannot be fettered by the body! Jesus said long ago, "The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live." Who are the dead? Christian Science teaches that they are those who are buried in false material beliefs. The voice of God is the voice of Truth, which is arousing men to know that real Life is Spirit, God, now and forever; that man, God's likeness, is therefore immortal now. Man never has been anything else, he never can be anything else, than the perfect immortal idea of God. Man is the full expression of divine Mind. How wonderfully beautiful and inspiring are these thoughts of spiritual man!

In "Unity of Good" (p. 46) Mrs. Eddy, however, tells us, "We do not see much of the real man here, for he is God's man; while ours is man's man." Oh, let us then as Christian Scientists arise from this false sense of man; let us pray in our hearts for a clearer vision of man as the reflection of God! We need it; our churches need it; the world needs it, vitally too. It will come to the world as we are more faithful in our daily resurrection above materiality, above the false beliefs that deaden our receptivity to the Christ-spirit. We need to arise to greater visions of spiritual purity and strength, to a clearer understanding and demonstration of Truth, in order that our every church service may be a greater healing and purifying influence in our community. This can be! Let us as members go to our services joyfully and gratefully, knowing that Christ, Truth, does heal, does purify, does lift our thought from the gloom of material sense into the glory and freedom of divine Mind. Thus we may ascend above a personal sense of man to the spiritual concept; and this true view of man will surely heal the weary, the sick, and the heavy-laden. Then shall we prove that the living Christ is indeed "the resurrection, and the life" to all who follow it in thought, word, and deed.

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