Chapter 2: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter II - Atonement And Eucharist

Obstacles overcome

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stone must be rolled from the cave's mouth; but Jesus

vanquished every material obstacle, overcame every law

of matter, and stepped forth from his gloomy resting-place,

crowned with the glory of a sublime success, an everlasting

victory.

Victory over the grave

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Our Master fully and finally demonstrated divine Sci-

ence in his victory over death and the grave. Jesus'

deed was for the enlightenment of men and

for the salvation of the whole world from sin,

sickness, and death. Paul writes: "For if, when we were

enemies, we were reconciled to God by the [seeming] death

of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved

by his life." Three days after his bodily burial he talked

with his disciples. The persecutors had failed to hide im-

mortal Truth and Love in a sepulchre.

The stone rolled away

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Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts!

Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of hu-

man hope and faith, and through the reve-

lation and demonstration of life in God, hath

elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual

idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.

After the resurrection

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They who earliest saw Jesus after the resurrection

and beheld the final proof of all that he had taught,

misconstrued that event. Even his disciples

at first called him a spirit, ghost, or spectre,

for they believed his body to be dead. His reply was:

"Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have."

The reappearing of Jesus was not the return of a spirit.

He presented the same body that he had before his cru-

cifixion, and so glorified the supremacy of Mind over

matter.

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Jesus' students, not sufficiently advanced fully to un-