“PROBATION AFTER DEATH”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 14

“PROBATION AFTER DEATH”

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERMON “Probation After Death” was the subject of the lesson-sermon in the Christian Science Church yesterday, the Golden Text being taken from John 11, 25: “I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” Among the citations which conjprised the lesson-sermon was the following from the Bible: “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall he brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.” (1 Corinthians, 16, 53, 54.) The lesson-sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science text-book, “Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: “The suppositions that sin is pardoned while unforsaken, that happiness can be genuine in the midst of sin. that the so-called death of the body frees from sin, and that God’s pardon is aught but the destruction of sin—these are grave mistakes. We know that all will be changed ‘in the twinkling of an eye,’ when the last trump shall sound; but this last call of wisdom cannot come till mortals have already yielded to each’ lesser call in the growth of Christian character.”