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Rh seal the victory over error and death, before the thorns can be laid aside for a crown, and the benediction follow, “Well done, good and faithful servant!” and the supremacy of Spirit be demonstrated.

The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge from his foes, and 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, and over all the claims of medicine, surgery, and hygiene.

He took no drugs to allay inflammation. He depended not upon food or pure air to resuscitate wasted energies. He required not 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 employ his feet as aforetime.

Can 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, wherein Divinity brought to humanity the understanding of the Christ-healing, and revealed a method infinitely above that of human invention.

His disciples believed Jesus dead while he was hidden in the sepulchre; whereas he was alive, demonstrating,

within the narrow tomb, the power of Spirit to destroy human, material sense. There were rock-ribbed walls in the way, and a great stone must be