The crown and the cross

Sometimes it’s hard to predict how people will respond to a statement from the Bible or from Mary Baker Eddy’s writings that we may think is powerful and transformative.

I found this out while I was teaching Sunday School to a group of high school students. I mentioned a line from one of Mrs. Eddy’s poems, which reads, “I kiss the cross, and wake to know / A world more bright” (Poems, p. 12).

One of the students responded, “Kiss the cross; you gotta be kidding!” Another said, unbelievingly: “Embrace the idea of a cross that needs to be carried? Is that what we have to do if we are to be Christian Scientists?”  

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