Easter ~ Hymns and Messages

Easter ~ Hymns & Messages

Easter Morn

Gently thou beckonest from the giant hills
The new-born beauty in the emerald sky,
And wakening murmurs from the drowsy rills —
O gladsome dayspring! 'reft of mortal sigh
To glorify all time — eternity —
With thy still fathomless Christ-majesty.

E'en as Thou gildest gladdened joy, dear God,
Give risen power to prayer; fan Thou the flame
Of right with might; and midst the rod,
And stern, dark shadows cast on Thy blest name,
Lift Thou a patient love above earth's ire,
Piercing the clouds with its triumphal spire.

While sacred song and loudest breath of praise
Echo amid the hymning spheres of light, —
With heaven's lyres and angels' loving lays, —
Send to the loyal struggler for the right,
Joy — not of time, nor yet by nature sown,
But the celestial seed dropped from Love's throne.

Prolong the strain "Christ risen!" Sad sense, annoy
No more the peace of Soul's sweet solitude!
Deep loneness, tear-filled tones of distant joy,
Depart! Glad Easter glows with gratitude —
Love's verdure veils the leaflet's wondrous birth —
Rich rays, rare footprints on the dust of earth.

Not life, the vassal of the changeful hour,
Nor burdened bliss, but Truth and Love attest
The solemn splendor of immortal power, —
The ever Christ, and glorified behest,
Poured on the sense which deems no suffering vain that wipes away the sting of death — sin, pain.
Mary Baker Eddy Other Writings
Book # 15 ~ Poems p. 30

Dedicatory Messages to Branch Churches

This glad Easter morning witnesseth a risen Saviour, a higher human sense of Life and Love, which wipes away all tears. With grave-clothes laid aside, Christ, Truth, has come forth from the tomb of the past, clad in immortality. The sepulchres give up their dead. Spirit is saying unto matter: I am not there, am not within you. Behold the place where they laid me; but human thought has risen!

Mortality's thick gloom is pierced. The stone is rolled away. Death has lost its sting, and the grave its victory. Immortal courage fills the human breast and lights the living way of Life.Mary Baker Eddy Other Writings
Book # 16 ~ Miscellany p. 191:15

Easter Message to Household
Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Discoverer

“That ye put off, concerning the former conversation, the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind: And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” Ephesians ~ 4:22-24

You must get rid of the “old man”, the old woman; you cannot make them better and keep them. You are not getting rid of the old man if you try to make him better. If you should succeed in making him better, he would stay with you. If you patch up the old and say it is good enough, you do not put it off, but keep it. If you try to make the old satisfactory, you are preparing to keep it, not to put it off.

We have but one Mind; and to abide in this perfect freedom individually is the resurrection, - is to have risen above material or lower demands. The resurrection sense is positive; it is yea, yea and nay, nay. “The resurrection sense does not listen compromisingly to error. It is always about its “Father’s business,”- reflecting Principle.

Jesus’ whole life was resurrection: that is, his life was a constant conscious rising spirituality above sin, sickness, death; and his resurrection from the grave was to sense a type of divine Love’s final triumph over the human belief that matter is substance, or has power to impose limitations to Mind or man.

Easter Message to the Mother Church

Beloved Brethren:

May this glad Easter morn find the members of this dear church having a pure peace, a fresh joy, a clear vision of heaven here, — heaven within us, — and an awakened sense of the risen Christ. May long lines of light span the horizon of their hope and brighten their faith with a dawn that knows no twilight and no night. May those who discourse music to-day, sing as the angels heaven's symphonies that come to earth.

May the dear Sunday School children always be gathering Easter lilies of love with happy hearts and ripening goodness. To-day may they find some sweet scents and beautiful blossoms in their Leader's love, which she sends to them this glad morn in the flowers and the cross from Pleasant View, smiling upon them.
Mary Baker Eddy Other Writings
Book # 16 ~ Miscellany p. 155:16

Easter Gladness
See Menu above for Music

Let us sing of Easter gladness
That rejoices every day,
Sing of hope and faith uplifted;
Love has rolled the stone away.
Lo, the promise and fulfillment,
Lo, the man whom God hath made,
Seen in glory of an Easter
Crowned with light that cannot fade.

When we touch Truth's healing garment
And behold Life's purity,
When we find in Love the refuge
That is man's security,
When we turn from earth to Spirit,
And from self have won release,
Then we see the risen Saviour;
Then we know his promised peace.

Living meekly as the Master,
Who of God was glorified,
Looking ever to the radiance
Of his wondrous Eastertide;
Freed of fear, of pain, and sorrow,
Giving God the honor due,
Every day will be an Easter
Filled with benedictions new.Frances Thompson Hill ~ Hymn 171, 413
Alleluia Samuel S. Wesley
Easter Arr. from Lyra Davidica, 1708

The Science of Christianity Celebrates The Risen Christ

Christian Science
“Love and Truth”
The Love of the One God
“The only Creator”
Bringing forth the Truth of Life

The Morning Meal:
This spiritual meeting with our Lord in the dawn of a new light is the morning meal which Christian Scientists celebrate,  They bow before Christ, Truth, to receive more of his reappearing and silently to commune with the divine Principle, Love. They celebrate their Lord’s victory over death, his probation in the flesh after death, its exemplification of human probation, and his spiritual and final ascension above matter or the flesh, when he rose out of material sight.
Science & Health With Key to the Scriptures
Mary Baker Eddy p. 35