Editorial April 8, 1944 Issue

The Stone Rolled Away

Evelyn F. Heywood

There is no heaviness in Spirit; its substance is not measured by weight or bulk. The yoke that is easy and the burden that is light are not found in the paths of matter, but belong increasingly to him who has entered the way pointed out and traversed by Christ Jesus.

Resurrection from the grave, whether of sin or sorrow, is the result of rolling away some stone which has blocked our light and vision; has shut out our freedom; has made us believe that Life could be crippled and confined, could know limitation and then be at an end.

The sepulcher is illustrated by an enclosure against which is rolled a stone. Associated for every Christian with Easter is the stone rolled away, the empty sepulcher. This for the mourners was the first step in the evidence of resurrection; the first promise of assurance in connection with the risen Christ. And this is the meaning of Easter to the Christian Scientist, even what Christ Jesus demonstrated for all men on that Sabbath morning—that Life to him who understands it, who lives it, and therefore who knows his oneness with it, overcomes every phase of mortality, since matter can never be the master of Spirit.

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