Article March 26, 1932 Issue

Our Resurrection

CHARLES V. WINN

Christian Science is to-day restoring living, dynamic, vital Christianity. It is the exact Science of God, man, law, and being. There is nothing empirical or speculative about it; it is unchangeably and demonstrably true. Christian Science is true at all times and under all conditions, and its great blessings are available to everyone, everywhere, providing its divine precepts are adhered to and obeyed. Its statement is simple, and its vital truths are easily discerned by the pure in heart and the honest seeker after good. It is both iconoclastic and constructive.

When Christian Science destroys that which is erroneous, it brings into our experience the positive right in place of the negative wrong. It embraces every essential of true Christianity and revitalizes in human thought the teachings of our great Master so that they become living and indispensable factors in our daily thinking and conduct. The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, through the light it throws upon the Bible, shows us clearly that every achievement in the life of our great Master was a pertinent illustration or demonstration of the truth, and that so far as we are faithful to the same truth, this can be repeated in our own experience.

The Christian Science textbook tells us on page 497 that "the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter." This statement is one of great helpfulness to the student of Christian Science, who understands that the crucifixion and the resurrection are not merely historical events occurring at definite dates, but that they are periods or evidences of spiritual growth. To crucify means "to subdue completely"; and every day of his earthly career Jesus was subduing the flesh and rising into his native atmosphere of Spirit. Every day to him was a resurrection day. Every day the allness of Soul, Spirit, was more clearly discerned by him, and the claims of the flesh were proved groundless. Every day the things of sense were forsaken by him for the ideas of God. With us, too, every day should be a resurrection day. Daily and hourly we should gain a firmer hold on the things of God, and the things of earth should seem less real and substantial to us. We should be in the world but not of it. God and heaven should become nearer, and material things less real.

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