Sermon Easter
Mark 16. 3.Mark 16:3 And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? Our pagan ancestors observed Easter in festivity to the gods
In Biblical history it was the feast of the Hebrew passover in commemorationAs Written:commoration of the Children of Israel'sAs Written:Israels deliverance from Egyptian bondage In the new testament it is the perpetual passover commemoration of the resurrectionAs Written:ressurection our dear Lords passage over death and the grave whereby he brought to light immortality man's salvation from sin sickness sickness and death a momentous truth divinely attested
Let us accept dear friends the invitationAs Written:invita- of this Easter season and go back in thought to the garden and sepulchre where they laid him We shall pass from the cross to the sepulchre from the fierce faces and heartrending brutality of his foes at the cross to his silent resting place And there pause for a a blessed world saving
influence float forth the i of a holy faith and love that suffering could not diminish but only render more profound
If apart from mortal minds even the tomb could sheltered him and yield him opportunity to work out the great problem of being in the supremacy of spirit over matter and life by Spirit
Whence to emerge wrapt in the glory of a sublime success in the triumph of an everlasting victory. Jesus was laid in a new sepulchre a befitting state since he must represent what was new to the world a deathless life his sepulchre — in a garden the symbol of a world made to blossom as a rose beneath the influence of the truth once a vague obstruction now [illegible] by proof demonstration the vital principle of a new Eden paradise restored Life proven everlasting sin and death proven powerless to him that overcometh them by the omnipotence of good
His students were plunged in despair they had left all for him and here was the inexorable fact that he was dead Behold their lack of spiritual understandingAs Written:understand when their master whom they mourned had said at the grave of Lazarus he is not dead but sleepethJohn 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
[*]Archival Note: The following paragraph and question and answer are written over an erasure which is illegible.Who shall roll away for us the stone from the sepulchre Who shall interpretAs Written:interept to an unspiritual age the mystery of godliness the power of Spirit
1st What is this stone?
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substance and mind and life in matter
Note each gospel narrative differs in John it is two angels in MatthewAs Written:Math and Luke one it was a young man sitting in a long white garment Now let us examine the spiritual signification of this startling
A human sense of matter the question then resolves itself into who or what shall take away this human sense of matter that enthralls us with its overpowering and destructiveAs Written:distructive forces that human inventions may outwit and master for a time or up to a given point then man surrenders and floats helplessly into its fatal fixed currents killed by violence, disease, or the tooth of time
Christian Science rolls away the stone reveals the supremacy of spirit over matter
What the divine personality of God or man is found after the ascension of its idea above flesh and blood I know not but this I do know since divine Science reveals it that man is not merged in his Maker absorbed into Deity that God is not pantheized into matter but that God and man are coexistent & eternal and forever reflected in his own image and likeness namely a spiritual universe and man
Our father which art here and every where an eternal power and presence to save and bless Thou wilt in thine own good time and way cleanse the human thought of its ignorance fear bigotry and malice that crucifieth afresh the idea of God and overturn until his whose right it isEzek 21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. shall reign now and evermore