Article April 9, 1966 Issue

"Three days' work"

REX MILLER

How bright a promise to mankind is the following picture, given by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge from his foes, a place in which to solve the great problem of being. His three days' work in the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time. He proved Life to be deathless and Love to be the master of hate."^{Science and Health, p. 44;}

Here is no hopeless vacuity of death, but the calm assurance of victory over "the last enemy that shall be destroyed."^{I Cor. 15:26;} Here is no dull passivity of resignation, but active resistance to false belief and vigorous mental realization of divine Truth.

No longer need we think of the days in the sepulcher as time taken out of the Master's life. On the contrary, they were most intensely active, for it was here that Christ Jesus completed his culminating proof to humanity that the grave has no victory and death no sting. He had previously raised others from what appeared to be death; now he proved his own invulnerability.

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