The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-04-09

elenlncant that wttn the eprlng- tida
with its singing vbirdA bursting buds,
bright skies and waking earth, there
comes the glorious festival OF Easter tide.
Next TO tnat season which Christians .ove
20 celebrate as the birthday season OF
Jesus Of Nazareth comes the Easter
season. which furnishes the triumphal
crown Of glory to that unique and won
drcus carter What was prophesisd in
the immaculate conception and nativity
OF the Bethlshsm babe was brought to
glorious finality In the realm OF natural.
spiritual law in Jesus triumph over the
power of the grave and over the assumed
laws OF matter and the hamau mind.
Looking back kward down the vista Of
time Till thought rests with mingled
awe and JOY upon ths central event Of
religious history--thp nrss Christmas,
with its accompanying message of holy
psacs to al msn-doss not one over.
shadowing question present itself to all
who thus journey back through the GEN.
turtles to consiuer and ponder the deep
lesson taught By the nativity of ths Beth
lehsm babel or what present. and lndi-
viuual signidcancs IL this event 20 us?
IL It's import siinplv Historical, or Is Its
essence spiritual and Of hourly value to
us as religionists OF the twentieth cen-
turyi The abiding nativity. or birth Of
the Christ consciousness, must 60 on
hourly In the hearts OF men else tina true
port OF the great reve iatiop. Of ideal
MANHOOD, pregnant with purity, domin-
ion, and Immortality Is lost. The
hsavenly lesson taught by that distant
event lives for men today - truly ss 1t
cid for those hunpls pastoral WATCHERS
who heard the first vesper song on Judsa's
Plains when through the evening hush
and quiet rung out the great antnom
son earth, psac,, good will toward men,"
Tho key note for che Easter season was
sounded bv Jesus when he said ! (the
Ego the Chris Principle OF my Being)
am the Resurrection ara the Life. he
that: telievsth in me though he were
dead yet shall be livs."
In Christian Science the significance OF
Erstsr is deep. ideslistic, practical and
comforting. Christian scientlsts accept
the recorded life AMI works Of Jesus Christ
as portrayed ry tie four svanselists In
tie Gospels as the scientific and spiritual
revelation OF career lived en- Q sp .ritually
ascending scale. Ihsy believe that the
life and works Of Jesus we're in thorough
accord with. not contrary to, the rational
and demonstrabls law OF divine Mind, or
the ascendancy of the spiritual over the
material, the mental over the physical
and the Immortal divine, and perfect
over the mortal. human, and imporfect.
The events wondrous TO human sense. but
practical and plain to illu minated spirit
usi sense, which closed the earthly career
OF our Master. His demo astrstion of
rssuscitation and healing during his ihree
days In the tomb, His Easter morning
exit from that silent resting plscr His
forty days. companlonsihp with His dis
ciplss and near followers, and his final
ascension above the earth vision of those
about Him, In His triumphAl elevation
atove this world, all manifest to Chris
tian Scientists consistent and spiritually
scientific evidences OF the great truth
resi- .ent In all His teachings. They also
reveal that what men wrongly call
miracles are but the manifestation and
operation OF mental or spiritual laws
which always have existed, and always
will exist to tha mind pure enough to
perceive and demonstrate trem. Through
these laws men rise from, sense to SouL
from earth to Heaven, from humanity to
Givinity, from the image OF the earthly
into the possession of tte image Of the
Heavenly. That Jesus performed all His
works In accordance with an exact law,
clear and vivid to His spiritually illum-
ined mind. is shown In the glorious
promise that He gave his disciples in
that and In all following ages, 1.-The
works that do shall We do also, and
greater works than these shall ye do. te-
cause / 90 unto the Father. In other
w5rda through spiritual assendanoy He
provea that man living In acc,rd with
tSs ways and means of divine Mind. or
tie power of Good over evil, Truth ovsr
error. and Mind orer matter, could step
by step subjugate and destroy the power
OF sin, disesae and death; hence His
words, "Wnososvsr liveth and bolieveta
in ne (undsrstandeth me. or my tsach-
ings) shall never aie." It is the l,rger,
broa FER, and moro universal application
OF the Significance OF the Easter seas IN
that humanity most needs to ponder.
While accepting the resurrection Of Jesus
Christ as true literally, spiritually and
scientifically, Christian scientists sac in
this event no evidence Of Supernatural
ism. They reject the popular orthodox
idea that 1t was q miraculous syent
vouchsaved to man Dy personal God to
confirm ths claims OF Christ to the Mes.
si~hsbip and to Give 10 the career of
Jesus seal OF supernatural power. Taey
also most vigorously reject the extreme
rationalistic or humanitarian visw so
common 10 tie religious worli OF today,
winch rsissates this svsnt with other i'm
pcrtant oeponstrstions OF Jesus career
TO the realm Of fable and mysticism.
With logical explanation AMI eviiencs
Christian science. ~ t,urht ty Mrs.
EfaS tecchxa that tba Qork erat Icxus