Editorial April 7, 1928 Issue

"The stone was rolled away"

Duncan Sinclair

It is recorded in Mark's Gospel that "when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the Mother of James, and Salome ... very early in the morning the first day of the week, ... came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun." "And when they looked," continues the narrative, "they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great." Jesus had risen from the dead. And who will say what that rising has meant for the world?

The Master's victory over the grave may be regarded as the inevitable climax of his life-work. What was the task the great Nazarene had set himself? It was to do the will of God, his Father; to make known the nature of God as Spirit and Truth, and to bring to mankind the glad tidings of the unlimited love which the Father exercises continually over all His children. Christ Jesus lived in constant communion with God, Truth; and this intimate communion enabled him to rise in consciousness above the materialism of the world to such a degree that the material beliefs which held sway over men, and too often manifested themselves in disease and sin, were swept away, with the inevitable healing results.

Christian Science has thrown a great light on the whole earthly career of Jesus. It acknowledges his birth as the son of the virgin mother, and sees him as possessed of extraordinary spiritual vision and understanding; and it maintains that it was this spiritual understanding, this knowledge of God and His creation, that endowed him with the power to heal all manner of disease and sin, to annul the so-called laws of matter, and to vanquish the belief of death, first for others, and finally for himself. Christian Science gives an entirely satisfactory—because correct—explanation of the great Way-shower's life on earth, up to and including what is called his ascension.

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