Article September 23, 1939 Issue

Love's Resurrection

RUBY M. APPEL

In one of the most solemn asseverations Christ Jesus ever uttered, namely, "I am the resurrection, and the life," he links inseparably the two words, "resurrection" and "life." This calls attention to the fact that proportionately as one takes part in the resurrection out of material beliefs, the immortality of Life is demonstrated.

Christian Science has revolutionized the significance of the word "resurrection" by showing us that resurrection is a continuous mental process. Mary Baker Eddy, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 593), clearly defines it as "spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding." In the gaining of this "new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence," we must of necessity turn to the life of him who made the above solemn declaration. Christ Jesus' demonstration of Life, culminating in his resurrection, was a perpetually ascending one, thus furnishing proof that the gaining of immortality is purely a mental process. This state of consciousness is attainable through the right understanding of God, as taught in Christian Science, and through faithful obedience to Jesus' precepts.

Christian Science has revealed the original beauty of our Master's teachings. John, the beloved disciple, wrote in his first epistle, "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." In perfect correlation of this beautiful Scriptural passage, Mrs. Eddy, in her beloved poem entitled "Love," writes (Poems, p. 7), "Love alone is Life." Thus we see that to love is to live. What could be more tenderly beautiful? How important then for us, as students of Christian Science, to pray earnestly that we may live a life of love; for if we are not reflecting Love, we are not truly living. Proportionably as we love, then, we truly live, and not only for the present, but throughout eternity. Thus we may demonstrate immortality.

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