to remove the napkin and winding-sheet, and use his feet to walk forth from the tomb.
Can this be called supernatural, when the God of nature sustained Jesus in his proof of man's derived power? Was it not a method of surgery beyond material art? It was not a supernatural act, but one divinely natural, when divinity brought to humanity the understanding of the Christ-healing, and revealed a method infinitely above human inventions.
His disciples believed Jesus dead; whereas he was alive, testing, within the narrow tomb, the power of Spirit to destroy all human material sense. There were rock-bound walls in the way, and a great 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, wrapped in the glory of a sublime success.
Glory to God, peace to the struggling nations. Jesus hath rolled away the stone from the door of understanding, and elevated mortals through his revelation and demonstration of Divine Science.
Jesus said plainly that person was not Spirit; and he proved, to the personal senses, after his resurrection, that his body was not changed until he rose even higher in the understanding of Spirit. To convince Thomas of this, he caused him to examine the prints of the nails, and the spear wound. His unchanged physical condition, after what seemed to them death, was followed by a more exalted condition, which revealed a probationary and progressive state beyond the grave.
When will his followers learn to emulate Jesus in all his ways, and imitate his mighty works? Those who
