Article March 28, 1959 Issue

ROLLING AWAY THE STONE

HERBERT E. BONHAM

When early that first Easter morning Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, she peered into the sepulcher. The heavy stone had been rolled away, and her Master's body was not inside.

Writing of the significance of this event, Mary Baker Eddy asks (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 179), "What is it that seems a stone between us and the resurrection morning?" And she replies: "It is the belief of mind in matter. We can only come into the spiritual resurrection by quitting the old consciousness of Soul in sense." And she further explains, "We must lay aside material consciousness, and then we can perceive Truth, and say with Mary, 'Rabboni!'—Master!"

To all who are ready to walk in the way that Christ Jesus revealed, that morning is momentous. To the physical senses, we seem to be entombed in mortal beliefs. It is the stone of mortal existence, the belief that life and intelligence are in matter, which blocks our way. This is the stone which we must roll away through the spiritual understanding of God, Truth, Life, and Love, before we can see man, who is made in the image and likeness of God. Out of the belief in matter come the lies of sickness, sin, and death.

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