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world, the flesh, and the devil.

Three years he went about doing good. He had for thirty years been preparing to heal and teach divinely; but his three-years mission was a marvel of glory: its [5]

chaplet, a grave to mortal sense dishonored-from which sprang a sublime and everlasting victory!

He who dated time, the Christian era, and spanned eternity, was the meekest man on earth. He healed and taught by the wayside, in humble homes: to arrant [10]

hypocrite and to dull disciples he explained the Word of G.o.d, which has since ripened into interpretation through Science.

His words were articulated in the language of a de- clining race, and committed to the providence of G.o.d. [15]

In no one thing seemed he less human and more divine than in his unfaltering faith in the immortality of Truth.

Referring to this, he said, ”Heaven and earth shall pa.s.s away, but my words shall not pa.s.s away!” and they have not: they still live; and are the basis of divine [20]

liberty, the medium of Mind, the hope of the race.

Only three years a personal Saviour! yet the founda- tions he laid are as eternal as Truth, the chief corner-stone.

After his brief brave struggle, and the crucifixion of [25]

the corporeal man, the incorporeal Saviour-the Christ or spiritual idea which leadeth into all Truth-must needs come in Christian Science, demonstrating the spir- itual healing of body and mind.

This idea or divine essence was, and is, forever about [30]

the Father's business; heralding the Principle of health, holiness, and immortality.

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Its divine Principle interprets the incorporeal idea, or [1]

Son of G.o.d; hence the incorporeal and corporeal are distinguished thus: the former is the spiritual idea that represents divine good, and the latter is the human presentation of goodness in man. The Science of Chris- [5]

tianity, that has appeared in the ripeness of time, re- veals the incorporeal Christ; and this will continue to be seen more clearly until it be acknowledged, under- stood,-and the Saviour, which is Truth, be compre- hended. [10]

To the vision of the Wis.e.m.e.n, this spiritual idea of the Principle of man or the universe, appeared as a star. At first, the babe Jesus seemed small to mortals; but from the mount of revelation, the prophet beheld it from the beginning as the Redeemer, who would present a wonder- [15]

ful manifestation of Truth and Love.

In our text Isaiah foretold, ”His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty G.o.d, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”

As the Wis.e.m.e.n grew in the understanding of Christ, [20]

the spiritual idea, it grew in favor with them. Thus it will continue, as it shall become understood, until man be found in the actual likeness of his Maker. Their highest human concept of the man Jesus, that portrayed him as the only Son of G.o.d, the only begotten of the [25]

Father, full of grace and Truth, will become so magnified to human sense, by means of the lens of Science, as to reveal man collectively, as individually, to be the son of G.o.d.

The limited view of G.o.d's ideas arose from the testimony [30]

of the senses. Science affords the evidence that G.o.d is the Father of man, of all that is real and eternal. This spir-

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itual idea that the personal Jesus demonstrated, casting [1]

out evils and healing, more than eighteen centuries ago, disappeared by degrees; both because of the ascension of Jesus, in which it was seen that he had grown beyond the human sense of him, and because of the corruption of [5]

the Church.

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