CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Rev. M. B. G. Eddy's Easter Service.
The Church of Christ (Scientist) had their meeting Easter Sunday at Hawthorn Rooms, which were crowded one hour before service commenced, and half an hour before the arrival of the pastor, Mary B. G. Eddy, the tide of men and women was turned from the doors with the information, "No more standing room".
On each side of the pulppitEditorial Note: This is a handwritten correction written in pencil by Mary Baker Eddy. were beautiful plants and flowers, while a table in front of the speaker was laden with an immense cross composed of roses, calla lilies, etc., Towering very nearly to the top of the pulpit. It was with difficulty that Mrs Eddy, with the assistance of the genial but muscular usher, Mr. Palmer, could force her way through the crowd, blocking the hallway and aisles, but it was accomplished after a good-natured struggle.
[?] Unclear or illegible speaker took her text from Mark xvi. 3: "Who shall roll us away the stone from the sepulchre"?Mark 16:3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? She said: This stone, in a spiritual sense, is the human view entertained of the power, resistance, and substance of matter as opposed to the might and supremacy of spirit; that Jesus met this question and settled it on the side of God's love and omnipotence, showing their triumph on all occasions. The resurrection was a momentous truth divinely attested; by it the vague abstraction of metaphysics is animated with immortal proof, the vitalizing power of all truth. The sacred precincts of the tomb gave Jesus refuge from the heart-sickening brutality of his foes long enough to solve the great problem of being at every microscopic point.
His three days' work in the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time, it proved life deathless, and love the master of human hate. It met materia medica, surgery and hygiene with the power of mind over matter, and mastered them on this basis.
He neither requiredEditorial Note: This is a handwritten correction written in pencil by Mary Baker Eddy. drugs to allay inflammation, pure air and nourishment to resuscitate the wasted energies, norEditorial Note: This is a handwritten correction written in pencil by Mary Baker Eddy. the skill of a surgeon to support or reinstate his parted palms that he might use those hands to remove the napkins and winding-sheet, andEditorial Note: This is a handwritten correction written in pencil by Mary Baker Eddy. to bind up his wounded side and lacerated feet. Was this supernatural, since the God of nature established it in proof of a man's delegated power? It was not supernatural, but rendered divinely natural when divinity brought to humanity the understanding of His power.
Oh the gloom and glory of that hour! His disciples believed him dead; himself was testing the power of Spirit to destroy all human sense of matter -- ofEditorial Note: This is a handwritten correction written in pencil by Mary Baker Eddy. the closed coffin-lid, the earth-bound walls and iron-door of his tomb, yea, the power of death -- that great stone which must be rolled away to let the human understanding rise to a sense of divine life and power. Jesus met every material condition, lEditorial Note: This is a handwritten correction written in pencil by Mary Baker Eddy.aw of matter, and mastered them when he stepped forth from his loathsome resting place, wrapt in the glory of a sublime success, an everlasting victory. He hath rolled away the stone of sin and sense from every human mind and body, if this mind will accept his proof for its example and receive this full salvation.