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seal the victory over error and death, before the thorns
can be laid aside for a crown, the benediction follow,
"Well done, good and faithful servant," and the supremacy
of Spirit be demonstrated.
(Jesus in the tomb)
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. He met and mastered on the basis of Christian
Science, the power of Mind over matter, all the claims
of medicine, surgery, and hygiene.
He took no drugs to allay inflammation. He did not
depend upon food or pure air to resuscitate wasted
energies. He did not require the skill of a surgeon to
heal the torn palms and bind up the wounded side and
lacerated feet, that he might use those hands to remove
the napkin and winding-sheet, and that he might employ
his feet as before.
(The deific naturalism)
Could it be called supernatural for the God of nature
to sustain Jesus in his proof of man's truly derived power?
It was a method of surgery beyond material
art, but it was not a supernatural act. On
the contrary, it was a divinely natural act, whereby divinity
brought to humanity the understanding of the Christ-healing
and revealed a method infinitely above that of
human invention.
(Obstacles overcome)
His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while he was
hidden in the sepulchre, whereas he was alive, demonstrating
within the narrow tomb the power
of Spirit to overrule mortal, material sense.
There were rock-ribbed walls in the way, and a great
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