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chapter 2
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atonement and eucharist
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and they that are christ's have
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crucified the flesh with the affections
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and lusts
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saint
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paul for christ sent me not to baptize
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but to preach the gospel
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saint paul
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for i say unto you
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i will not drink of the fruit of the
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vine until the kingdom of god shall come
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jesus
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atonement is the exemplification of
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man's unity with god
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whereby man reflects divine truth
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life and love
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jesus of nazareth taught and
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demonstrated man's oneness with the
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father
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and for this we owe him endless homage
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his mission was both individual and
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collective
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he did life's work a right not only in
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justice to himself
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but in mercy to mortals
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to show them how to do theirs
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but not to do it for them
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nor to relieve them of a single
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responsibility
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jesus acted boldly
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against the accredited evidence of the
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senses
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against pharisaical creeds and practices
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and he refuted all opponents with his
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healing power
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the atonement of christ
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reconciles man to god
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not god to man
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for the divine principle of christ is
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god
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and how can god propitiate himself
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christ is truth
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which reaches no higher than itself
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the fountain can rise no higher than its
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source
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christ's truth
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could conciliate no nature above his own
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derived from the eternal love
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it was therefore christ's purpose
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to reconcile man to god
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not god to man
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love and truth are not at war with god's
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image and likeness
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man cannot exceed divine love
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and so atone for himself
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even christ cannot reconcile truth to
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error
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for truth and error are irreconcilable
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jesus aided in reconciling man to god
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by giving man a truer sense of love
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the divine principle of jesus teachings
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and this truer sense of love redeems man
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from the law of matter
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sin
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and death by the law of spirit
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the law of divine love
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the master forborn not to speak the
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whole truth
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declaring precisely what would destroy
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sickness sin and death
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although his teachings set households at
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variance
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and brought to material beliefs not
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peace but a sword
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every pang of repentance and suffering
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every effort for reform
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every good thought and deed
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will help us to understand jesus
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atonement for sin
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and aid its efficacy
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but if the sinner continues to pray and
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repent
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sin and be sorry
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he has little part in the atonement
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in the at one mint with god
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for he lacks the practical repentance
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which reforms the heart
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and enables man to do the will of wisdom
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those who cannot demonstrate at least in
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part
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the divine principle of the teachings
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and practice of our master
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have no part in god
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if living in disobedience to him
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we ought to feel no security
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although god is good
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jesus urged the commandment
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thou shalt have no other gods before me
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which may be rendered
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thou shalt have no belief of life as
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mortal
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thou shalt not know evil
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for there is one life
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even god good
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he rendered unto caesar the things which
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are caesar's
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and unto god
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the things that are god's
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he at last paid no homage to forms of
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doctrine
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or to theories of man
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but acted and spake as he was moved
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not by spirits
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but by spirit
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to the ritualistic priest and
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hypocritical pharisee jesus said
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the publicans and the harlots go into
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the kingdom of god before you
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jesus history made a new calendar
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which we call the christian era
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but he established no ritualistic
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worship
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he knew that men can be baptized partake
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of the eucharist
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support the clergy
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observe the sabbath
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make long prayers
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and yet be sensual and sinful
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jesus bore our infirmities
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he knew the error of mortal belief
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and with his stripes
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the rejection of error
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we are healed
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despised and rejected of men
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returning blessing for cursing
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he taught mortals the opposite of
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themselves
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even the nature of god
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and when error felt the power of truth
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the scourge and the cross awaited the
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great teacher
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yet he swerved not
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well knowing
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that to obey the divine order
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and trust god
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saves retracing and traversing anew the
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path from sin
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to holiness
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material belief is slow to acknowledge
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what the spiritual fact implies
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the truth
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is the center of all religion
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it commands sure entrance into the realm
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of love
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saint paul wrote
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let us lay aside every weight
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and the sin which doth so easily beset
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us
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and let us run with patience the race
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that is set before us
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that is
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let us put aside material self and sense
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and seek the divine principle and
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science of all healing
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if truth is overcoming error in your
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daily walk in conversation
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you can finally say
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i have fought a good fight
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i have kept the faith
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because you are a better man
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this is having our part
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in the at one minute with truth and love
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christians do not continue to labor and
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pray
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expecting because of another's goodness
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suffering and triumph
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that they shall reach his harmony and
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reward
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if the disciple is advancing spiritually
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he is striving to enter in
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he constantly turns away from material
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and looks towards the imperishable
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things of spirit
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if honest
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he will be in earnest from the start
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and gain a little each day in the right
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direction
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till at last he finishes his course with
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joy
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if my friends are going to europe
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while i am enroute for california
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we are not journeying together
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we have separate timetables to consult
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different routes to pursue
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our paths have diverged at the very
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outset
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and we have little opportunity to help
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on the contrary
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if my friends pursue my course
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we have the same railroad guides
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and our mutual interests are identical
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or if i take up their line of travel
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they help me on
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and our companionship may continue
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being in sympathy with matter
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the worldly man is at the beck and call
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of error
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and will be attracted thitherward
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he is like a traveler going westward for
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a pleasure trip
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the company is alluring
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and the pleasure's exciting
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after following the sun for six days
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he turns east on the seventh
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satisfied
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if he can only imagine himself drifting
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in the right direction
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by and by
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ashamed of his zigzag course
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he would borrow the passport of some
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wiser pilgrim
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thinking with the aid of this
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to find and follow the right road
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vibrating like a pendulum between sin
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and the hope of forgiveness
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selfishness and sensuality causing
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constant retrogression
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our moral progress will be slow
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waking to christ's demand
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mortals experience suffering
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this causes them
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even as drowning men
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to make vigorous efforts to save
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themselves
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and through christ's precious love
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these efforts are crowned with success
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work out your own salvation is the
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demand of life and love
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for to this end
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god worketh with you
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occupy till i come
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wait for your reward
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and be not weary in well-doing
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if your endeavors are beset by fearful
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odds
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and you receive no present reward
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go not back to error
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nor become a sluggard in the race
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when the smoke of battle clears away
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you will discern the good you have done
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and receive according to your deserving
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love is not hasty to deliver us from
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temptation
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for love means that we shall be tried
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and purified
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final deliverance from error
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whereby we rejoice in immortality
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boundless freedom
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and sinless sense
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is not reached through paths of flowers
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nor by pinning one's faith without works
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to another's vicarious
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effort whosoever believeth that wrath is
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righteous
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or that divinity is appeased by human
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suffering
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does not understand god
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justice requires reformation of the
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sinner
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mercy cancels the debt only when justice
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approves
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revenge is inadmissible
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wrath which is only appeased is not
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destroyed
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but partially indulged
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wisdom and love may require many
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sacrifices of self to save us from sin
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one sacrifice however great
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is insufficient to pay the debt of sin
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the atonement requires constant
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self-immolation on the sinner's part
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that god's wrath should be vented upon
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his beloved son
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is divinely unnatural
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such a theory is man-made
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the atonement is a hard problem in
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theology
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but its scientific explanation is that
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suffering is an error of sinful sense
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which truth destroys
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and that eventually
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both sin and suffering
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will fall at the feet of everlasting
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love
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rabbinical lore said
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he that taketh one doctrine firm in
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faith
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has the holy ghost dwelling in him
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this preaching receives a strong rebuke
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in the scripture
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faith without works is dead
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faith
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if it be mere belief
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is as a pendulum swinging between
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nothing and something
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having no fixity
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faith
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advanced to spiritual understanding
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is the evidence gained from spirit
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which rebukes sin of every kind
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and establishes the claims of god
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in hebrew greek latin and english
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faith and the words corresponding
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thereto
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have these two definitions
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trustfulness
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and trustworthiness
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one kind of faith trusts one's welfare
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to others
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another kind of faith understands divine
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love
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and how to work out one's own salvation
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with fear and trembling
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lord i believe
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help thou mine unbelief
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expresses the helplessness of a blind
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faith
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whereas the injunction
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believe
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and thou shalt be saved
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demands self-reliant trustworthiness
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which includes spiritual understanding
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and confides all to god
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the hebrew verb to believe
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means also to be firm
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or to be constant
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this certainly applies to truth and love
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understood and practiced
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firmness in error will never save from
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sin disease and death
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acquaintance with the original texts
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and willingness to give up human beliefs
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established by hierarchies and
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instigated sometimes by the worst
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passions of men
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open the way for christian science to be
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understood
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and make the bible the chart of life
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where the buoys and healing currents of
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truth are pointed out
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he to whom the arm of the lord is
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revealed
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will believe our report
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and rise into newness of life with
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regeneration
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this is having part in the atonement
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this is the understanding in which jesus
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suffered and triumphed
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the time is not distant when the
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ordinary theological views of atonement
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will undergo a great change
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a change as radical as that which has
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come over popular opinions
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in regard to predestination
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and future punishment
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does erudite theology regard the
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crucifixion of jesus
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chiefly as providing a ready pardon for
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all sinners who ask for it
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and are willing to be forgiven
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does spiritualism find jesus death
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necessary only for the presentation
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after death
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of the material jesus
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as a proof that spirits can return to
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earth
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then we must differ from them both
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the efficacy of the crucifixion
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lay in the practical affection and
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goodness it demonstrated for mankind
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the truth had been lived among men
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but until they saw that it enabled their
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master to triumph over the grave
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his own disciples could not admit such
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an event to be possible
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after the resurrection
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even the unbelieving thomas was forced
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to acknowledge how complete was the
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great proof
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of truth and love
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the spiritual essence of blood
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is sacrifice
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the efficacy of jesus spiritual offering
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is infinitely greater than can be
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expressed by our sense of human blood
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the material blood of jesus
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was no more efficacious to cleanse from
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sin when it was shed upon the accursed
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tree
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than when it was flowing in his veins
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as he went daily about his father's
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business
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his true flesh and blood
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were his life
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and they truly eat his flesh and drink
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his blood who partake of that divine
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life
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jesus taught the way of life by
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demonstration
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that we may understand how this divine
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principle heals the sick
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casts out error
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and triumphs over death
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jesus presented the ideal of god
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better than could any man whose origin
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was less spiritual
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by his obedience to god
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he demonstrated more spiritually than
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all others the principle of being
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hence the force of his admonition
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if ye love me
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keep my commandments
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though demonstrating his control over
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sin and disease
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the great teacher by no means relieved
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others from giving the requisite proofs
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of their own piety
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he worked for their guidance
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that they might demonstrate this power
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as he did
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and understand its divine principle
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implicit faith in the teacher
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and all the emotional love we can bestow
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on him
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will never alone make us imitators of
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him
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we must go and do likewise
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else we are not improving the great
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blessings which our master worked and
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suffered to bestow upon us
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the divinity of the christ was made
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manifest in the humanity of jesus
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while we adore jesus
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and the heart overflows with gratitude
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for what he did for mortals
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treading alone his loving pathway
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up to the throne of glory
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in speechless agony exploring the way
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for us
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yet jesus spares us not one individual
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experience
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if we follow his commands
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faithfully and all have the cup of
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sorrowful effort to drink
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in proportion to their demonstration of
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his love
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till all are redeemed through divine
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love
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the christ was the spirit which jesus
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implied in his own statements
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i am the way
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the truth and the life
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i and my father are one
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this christ
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or divinity of the man jesus
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was his divine nature
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the godliness which animated him
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divine truth
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life
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and love
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gave jesus authority over sin
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sickness and death
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his mission was to reveal the science of
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celestial being
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to prove what god is
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and what he does for man
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a musician demonstrates the beauty of
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the music he teaches
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in order to show the learner the way by
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practice
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as well as precept
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jesus teaching and practice of truth
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involved such a sacrifice
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as makes us admit its principle to be
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love
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this was the precious import of our
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master's sinless career
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and of his demonstration of power over
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death
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he proved by his deeds
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that christian science destroys sickness
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sin
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and death
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our master taught no mere theory
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doctrine or belief
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it was the divine principle
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of all real being which he taught and
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practiced
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his proof of christianity
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was no form or system of religion and
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worship but christian science
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working out the harmony of life and love
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jesus sent a message to john the baptist
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which was intended to prove beyond a
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question
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that the christ had come
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go your way and tell john what things ye
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have seen and heard
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how that the blind see the lame walk
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the lepers are cleansed
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the deaf hear
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the dead are raised
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to the poor the gospel is preached
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in other words
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tell john what the demonstration of
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divine power is
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and he will at once perceive that god is
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the power
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in the messianic work
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that life is god
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jesus proved by his reappearance after
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the crucifixion
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in strict accordance with his scientific
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statement
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destroy this temple
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body
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and in three days i
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spirit
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will raise it up
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it is as if he had said
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the i
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the life substance and intelligence of
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the universe
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is not in matter to be destroyed
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jesus parables explain life
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as never mingling with sin and death
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he laid the acts of science at the root
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of material knowledge
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that it might be ready to cut down the
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false doctrine of pantheism
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that god or life
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is in or of matter
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jesus sent forth 70 students at one time
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but only 11 left a desirable historic
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record
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tradition credits him with two or three
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hundred other disciples
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who have left no name
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many are called but few are chosen
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they fell away from grace
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because they never truly understood
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their master's instruction
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why do those who profess to follow
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christ
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reject the essential religion he came to
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establish
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jesus persecutors made their strongest
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attack upon this very point
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they endeavored to hold him at the mercy
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of matter
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and to kill him
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according to certain assumed material
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laws
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the pharisees claimed to know and to
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teach the divine will but they only
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hindered the success of jesus mission
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even many of his students stood in his
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way
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if the master had not taken a student
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and taught the unseen verities of god
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he would not have been crucified
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the determination to hold spirit in the
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grasp of matter
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is the persecutor of truth and love
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while respecting all that is good in the
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church or out of it
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one's consecration to christ is more on
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the ground of demonstration
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than of profession
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in conscience we cannot hold to beliefs
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outgrown
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and by understanding more of the divine
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principle of the deathless christ
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we are enabled to heal the sick
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and to triumph over sin
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[Music]
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neither the origin the character nor the
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work of jesus was generally understood
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not a single component part of his
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nature did the material world measure a
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right
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even his righteousness and purity
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did not hinder men from saying
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he is a glutton
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and a friend of the impure
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and beelzebub is his patron
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remember thou christian martyr
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it is enough if thou art found worthy to
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unloose the sandals of thy master's feet
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to suppose that persecution for
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righteousness sake belongs to the past
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and that christianity today is at peace
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with the world
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because it is honored by sects and
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societies is to mistake the very nature
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of religion
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error repeats itself
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the trials encountered by prophet
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disciple and apostle
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of whom the world was not worthy
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await in some form
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every pioneer of truth
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there is too much animal courage in
619
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society
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and not sufficient moral courage
621
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christians must take up arms against
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error at home and abroad
623
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they must grapple with sin in themselves
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and in others
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and continue this warfare
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until they have finished their course
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if they keep the faith
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they will have the crown of rejoicing
629
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christian experience teaches faith in
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the right
631
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and disbelief in the wrong
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it bids us work the more earnestly in
633
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times of persecution
634
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because then our labor is more needed
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00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:26,398
great is the reward of self-sacrifice
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00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,038
though we may never receive it in this
637
00:32:26,398 --> 00:32:31,599
world
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there is a tradition that publius
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lentilus wrote to the authorities at
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rome
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quote
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the disciples of jesus believe him the
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son of god end quote
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those instructed in christian science
645
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have reached the glorious perception
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that god is the only author of man
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the virgin mother conceived this idea of
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god
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and gave to her ideal the name of jesus
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that is
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joshua or savior
652
00:33:10,159 --> 00:33:14,559
the illumination of mary's spiritual
653
00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:17,599
sense
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00:33:14,558 --> 00:33:20,480
put to silence material law
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00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:23,038
and its order of generation
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00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:25,679
and brought forth her child by the
657
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revelation of truth
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demonstrating god as the father of men
659
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the holy ghost
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or divine spirit
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overshadowed the pure sense of the
662
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virgin mother
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with the full recognition
664
00:33:42,398 --> 00:33:50,079
that being is spirit
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the christ dwelt forever an idea in the
666
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bosom of god the divine principle of the
667
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man jesus
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00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:05,038
and woman perceived this spiritual idea
669
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though at first faintly developed
670
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man as the offspring of god
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00:34:08,878 --> 00:34:15,199
as the idea of spirit
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00:34:11,918 --> 00:34:16,638
is the immortal evidence that spirit is
673
00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:20,239
harmonious
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and man eternal
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00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:26,959
jesus was the offspring of mary's
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self-conscious communion with god
677
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:32,838
hence he could give a more spiritual
678
00:34:29,838 --> 00:34:36,239
idea of life than other
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00:34:32,838 --> 00:34:37,440
men and could demonstrate the science of
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love
681
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:42,480
his father
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or divine principle
683
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born of a woman
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00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:52,000
jesus advent in the flesh partook partly
685
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of mary's earthly condition
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although
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he was endowed with the christ
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the divine spirit
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without measure
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00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:07,200
this accounts for his struggles in
691
00:35:03,519 --> 00:35:10,960
gethsemane and on calvary
692
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and this enabled him to be the mediator
693
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or wayshower
694
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:20,639
between god and men
695
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had his origin and birth been holy apart
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00:35:20,639 --> 00:35:25,759
from mortal usage
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jesus would not have been appreciable to
698
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mortal mind
699
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,720
as the
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way
701
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:36,639
rabbi and priest taught the mosaic law
702
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,039
which said
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00:35:36,639 --> 00:35:42,000
an eye for an eye
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00:35:39,039 --> 00:35:46,719
and whoso sheddeth man's blood
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00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:49,039
by man shall his blood be shed
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00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:52,000
not so did jesus
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00:35:49,039 --> 00:35:55,599
the new executor for god
708
00:35:52,000 --> 00:36:00,719
present the divine law of love
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00:35:55,599 --> 00:36:00,720
which blesses even those that curse it
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00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:08,400
as the individual ideal of truth
711
00:36:04,639 --> 00:36:11,118
christ jesus came to rebuke rabbinical
712
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:13,838
error and all sin
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00:36:11,119 --> 00:36:19,280
sickness and death
714
00:36:13,838 --> 00:36:19,279
to point out the way of truth and life
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00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:26,480
this ideal was demonstrated throughout
716
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:28,799
the whole earthly career of jesus
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00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:31,039
showing the difference between the
718
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:33,599
offspring of soul
719
00:36:31,039 --> 00:36:34,960
and of material sense
720
00:36:33,599 --> 00:36:38,000
of truth
721
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:41,119
and of error
722
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,000
if we have triumphed sufficiently over
723
00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:47,838
the errors of material since
724
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:51,760
to allow soul to hold the control
725
00:36:47,838 --> 00:36:52,838
we shall loathe sin and rebuke it under
726
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:56,320
every
727
00:36:52,838 --> 00:36:59,358
mask only in this way
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00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:02,000
can we bless our enemies
729
00:36:59,358 --> 00:37:04,239
though they may not so construe our
730
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:07,440
words
731
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:10,399
we cannot choose for ourselves
732
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:13,599
but must work out our salvation
733
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,200
in the way jesus taught
734
00:37:13,599 --> 00:37:16,720
in meekness
735
00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:20,838
and might
736
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:24,319
he was found preaching the gospel to the
737
00:37:20,838 --> 00:37:28,239
poor pride and fear
738
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:30,800
are unfit to bear the standard of truth
739
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:33,279
and god will never place it in such
740
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,280
hands
741
00:37:33,838 --> 00:37:39,440
jesus acknowledged no ties of the flesh
742
00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:43,119
he said
743
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:45,519
call no man your father upon the earth
744
00:37:43,119 --> 00:37:48,640
for one is your father
745
00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:52,480
which is in heaven
746
00:37:48,639 --> 00:37:55,199
again he asked who is my mother
747
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,400
and who are my brethren
748
00:37:55,199 --> 00:37:59,199
implying
749
00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:01,680
that it is they who do the will of his
750
00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:01,679
father
751
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:08,719
we have no record of his calling any man
752
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:11,760
by the name of father
753
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,879
he recognized spirit
754
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,599
god
755
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:20,320
as the only creator
756
00:38:15,599 --> 00:38:20,320
and therefore as the father of all
757
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:26,480
first in the list of christian duties
758
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,559
he taught his followers the healing
759
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:33,280
power of truth and love
760
00:38:30,559 --> 00:38:35,599
he attached no importance to dead
761
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:38,160
ceremonies
762
00:38:35,599 --> 00:38:40,160
it is the living christ
763
00:38:38,159 --> 00:38:43,358
the practical truth
764
00:38:40,159 --> 00:38:44,639
which makes jesus the resurrection and
765
00:38:43,358 --> 00:38:49,279
the life
766
00:38:44,639 --> 00:38:49,279
to all who follow him indeed
767
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:56,639
obeying his precious precepts
768
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:58,559
following his demonstration so far as we
769
00:38:56,639 --> 00:39:01,039
apprehend it
770
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:03,759
we drink of his cup
771
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:07,519
partake of his bread
772
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:10,480
are baptized with his purity
773
00:39:07,519 --> 00:39:12,559
and at last we shall rest
774
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,480
sit down with him
775
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:16,719
in a full understanding
776
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:20,880
of the divine principle
777
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,879
which triumphs over death
778
00:39:21,358 --> 00:39:27,199
for what says paul
779
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,639
as often as ye eat this bread and drink
780
00:39:27,199 --> 00:39:33,118
this cup
781
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:35,759
ye to show the lord's death till he come
782
00:39:33,119 --> 00:39:35,760
end quote
783
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:45,440
referring to the materiality of the age
784
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:47,920
jesus said the hour cometh and now is
785
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:50,240
when the true worshipers shall worship
786
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:53,280
the father in spirit
787
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:53,279
and in truth
788
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:57,358
again
789
00:39:54,719 --> 00:40:00,399
for seeing the persecution
790
00:39:57,358 --> 00:40:02,400
which would attend the science of spirit
791
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:05,920
jesus said
792
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,960
they shall put you out of the synagogues
793
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,880
yea
794
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:11,440
the time cometh
795
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:15,280
that whosoever killeth you
796
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:18,960
will think that he do with god's service
797
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:22,400
and these things will they do unto you
798
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:25,800
because they have not known the father
799
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,800
nor me
800
00:40:26,159 --> 00:40:33,118
in ancient rome a soldier was required
801
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:35,838
to swear allegiance to his general
802
00:40:33,119 --> 00:40:38,240
the latin word for this oath
803
00:40:35,838 --> 00:40:41,358
was sacramentum
804
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:44,399
and our english word sacrament is
805
00:40:41,358 --> 00:40:47,679
derived from it
806
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:49,920
among the jews it was an ancient custom
807
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:54,559
for the master of a feast
808
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:57,599
to pass each guest a cup of wine
809
00:40:54,559 --> 00:41:00,559
but the eucharist does not commemorate a
810
00:40:57,599 --> 00:41:04,079
roman soldier's oath
811
00:41:00,559 --> 00:41:07,039
nor was the wine used on convivial
812
00:41:04,079 --> 00:41:10,640
occasions and in jewish rites
813
00:41:07,039 --> 00:41:13,039
the cup of our lord
814
00:41:10,639 --> 00:41:15,039
the cup shows forth his bitter
815
00:41:13,039 --> 00:41:17,759
experience
816
00:41:15,039 --> 00:41:19,199
the cup which he prayed might pass from
817
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:22,319
him
818
00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:25,759
though he bowed in holy submission to
819
00:41:22,318 --> 00:41:25,759
the divine decree
820
00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:30,400
quote
821
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:32,318
as they were eating
822
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:35,358
jesus took bread
823
00:41:32,318 --> 00:41:39,279
and blessed it and break it
824
00:41:35,358 --> 00:41:40,480
and gave it to the disciples and said
825
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,839
take
826
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,480
eat
827
00:41:41,838 --> 00:41:47,759
this is my body
828
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:50,559
and he took the cup and gave thanks
829
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:53,599
and gave it to them saying
830
00:41:50,559 --> 00:41:56,318
drink ye all of it
831
00:41:53,599 --> 00:41:56,318
end quote
832
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:02,800
the true sense is spiritually lost if
833
00:41:59,679 --> 00:42:05,679
the sacrament is confined to the use of
834
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:08,560
bread and wine
835
00:42:05,679 --> 00:42:12,879
the disciples had eaten
836
00:42:08,559 --> 00:42:14,799
yet jesus prayed and gave them bread
837
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,960
this would have been foolish in a
838
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:20,318
literal sense
839
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:24,720
but in its spiritual signification
840
00:42:20,318 --> 00:42:27,039
it was natural and beautiful
841
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:30,399
jesus prayed
842
00:42:27,039 --> 00:42:33,440
he withdrew from the material senses to
843
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:35,230
refresh his heart with brighter
844
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,440
with spiritual views
845
00:42:35,230 --> 00:42:39,358
[Music]
846
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:42,639
the passover
847
00:42:39,358 --> 00:42:44,559
which jesus ate with his disciples in
848
00:42:42,639 --> 00:42:47,759
the month nissan
849
00:42:44,559 --> 00:42:49,539
on the night before his crucifixion
850
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,640
was a mournful occasion
851
00:42:49,539 --> 00:42:55,599
[Music]
852
00:42:50,639 --> 00:42:59,279
a sad supper taken at the close of day
853
00:42:55,599 --> 00:43:03,599
in the twilight of a glorious career
854
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:05,200
with shadows fast falling around
855
00:43:03,599 --> 00:43:06,960
and this supper
856
00:43:05,199 --> 00:43:09,279
closed forever
857
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:13,760
jesus ritualism
858
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:15,680
or concessions to matter
859
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,440
his followers
860
00:43:15,679 --> 00:43:21,199
sorrowful and silent
861
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,720
anticipating the hour of their master's
862
00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:25,838
betrayal
863
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:29,519
partook of the heavenly manna
864
00:43:25,838 --> 00:43:34,159
which of old had fed in the wilderness
865
00:43:29,519 --> 00:43:34,159
the persecuted followers of truth
866
00:43:34,318 --> 00:43:41,279
their bread indeed came down from heaven
867
00:43:38,639 --> 00:43:42,639
it was the great truth of spiritual
868
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:47,920
being
869
00:43:42,639 --> 00:43:47,920
healing the sick and casting out error
870
00:43:48,079 --> 00:43:54,880
their master had explained it all before
871
00:43:52,079 --> 00:43:57,839
and now this bread was feeding and
872
00:43:54,880 --> 00:44:00,880
sustaining them
873
00:43:57,838 --> 00:44:02,318
they had borne this bread from house to
874
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:03,760
house
875
00:44:02,318 --> 00:44:05,039
breaking
876
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,200
explaining
877
00:44:05,039 --> 00:44:11,599
it to others
878
00:44:07,199 --> 00:44:11,598
and now it comforted themselves
879
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:17,359
for this truth of spiritual being
880
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:18,880
their master was about to suffer
881
00:44:17,358 --> 00:44:24,480
violence
882
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:24,480
and drain to the dregs his cup of sorrow
883
00:44:25,039 --> 00:44:30,880
he must leave them
884
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:33,920
with the great glory of an everlasting
885
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:37,039
victory overshadowing him
886
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:40,400
he gave thanks and said
887
00:44:37,039 --> 00:44:40,400
drink ye all of it
888
00:44:41,358 --> 00:44:46,559
when the human element in him struggled
889
00:44:44,639 --> 00:44:48,960
with the divine
890
00:44:46,559 --> 00:44:50,559
our great teacher said
891
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:53,679
not my will
892
00:44:50,559 --> 00:44:55,039
but thine be done
893
00:44:53,679 --> 00:44:56,960
that is
894
00:44:55,039 --> 00:45:01,920
let not the flesh
895
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:01,920
but the spirit be represented in me
896
00:45:02,159 --> 00:45:07,358
this is the new understanding
897
00:45:04,559 --> 00:45:12,400
of spiritual love
898
00:45:07,358 --> 00:45:15,119
it gives all for christ or truth
899
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:17,280
it blesses its enemies
900
00:45:15,119 --> 00:45:19,680
heals the sick
901
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:24,079
casts out error
902
00:45:19,679 --> 00:45:27,519
raises the dead from trespasses and sins
903
00:45:24,079 --> 00:45:31,039
and preaches the gospel to the poor
904
00:45:27,519 --> 00:45:31,039
the meek in heart
905
00:45:31,358 --> 00:45:35,838
christians
906
00:45:33,039 --> 00:45:38,079
are you drinking his cup
907
00:45:35,838 --> 00:45:39,519
have you shared the blood of the new
908
00:45:38,079 --> 00:45:42,880
covenant
909
00:45:39,519 --> 00:45:47,280
the persecutions which attend a new and
910
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:48,800
higher understanding of god
911
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,880
if not
912
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:55,359
can you then say that you have
913
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,358
commemorated jesus in his cup
914
00:45:55,440 --> 00:46:00,639
are all who eat bread and drink wine in
915
00:45:58,639 --> 00:46:04,480
memory of jesus
916
00:46:00,639 --> 00:46:06,559
willing truly to drink his cup
917
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:11,358
take his cross
918
00:46:06,559 --> 00:46:11,358
and leave all for the christ principle
919
00:46:11,679 --> 00:46:16,879
then why ascribe this inspiration to a
920
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:20,800
dead right
921
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:24,160
instead of showing by casting out error
922
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:25,359
and making the body holy acceptable unto
923
00:46:24,159 --> 00:46:30,239
god
924
00:46:25,358 --> 00:46:30,239
that truth has come to the understanding
925
00:46:30,318 --> 00:46:36,239
if christ's truth has come to us in
926
00:46:34,159 --> 00:46:40,239
demonstration
927
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:43,759
no other commemoration is requisite
928
00:46:40,239 --> 00:46:46,479
for demonstration is emmanuel
929
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:49,359
or god with us
930
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:54,240
and if a friend be with us
931
00:46:49,358 --> 00:46:54,239
why need we memorials of that friend
932
00:46:54,639 --> 00:47:01,279
if all whoever partook of the sacrament
933
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,639
had really commemorated the sufferings
934
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,040
of jesus
935
00:47:02,639 --> 00:47:10,000
and drunk of his cup
936
00:47:05,039 --> 00:47:13,119
they would have revolutionized the world
937
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:15,599
if all who seek his commemoration
938
00:47:13,119 --> 00:47:18,079
through material symbols
939
00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:20,160
will take up the cross
940
00:47:18,079 --> 00:47:22,240
heal the sick
941
00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:26,000
cast out evils
942
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:28,479
and preach christ or truth to the poor
943
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:32,639
the receptive thought
944
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:32,639
they will bring in the millennium
945
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:40,159
through all the disciples experienced
946
00:47:37,519 --> 00:47:41,759
they became more spiritual and
947
00:47:40,159 --> 00:47:44,719
understood better
948
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:47,359
what the master had taught
949
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:49,439
his resurrection was also their
950
00:47:47,358 --> 00:47:52,318
resurrection
951
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:55,838
it helped them to raise themselves and
952
00:47:52,318 --> 00:47:57,838
others from spiritual dullness and blind
953
00:47:55,838 --> 00:48:00,318
belief in god
954
00:47:57,838 --> 00:48:03,039
into the perception of infinite
955
00:48:00,318 --> 00:48:05,599
possibilities
956
00:48:03,039 --> 00:48:08,480
they needed this quickening
957
00:48:05,599 --> 00:48:12,559
for soon their dear master would rise
958
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:17,440
again in the spiritual realm of reality
959
00:48:12,559 --> 00:48:20,800
and ascend far above their apprehension
960
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:24,318
as the reward for his faithfulness
961
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:26,880
he would disappear to material sense
962
00:48:24,318 --> 00:48:30,480
in that change which has since been
963
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,480
called the ascension
964
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:35,118
what a contrast between our lord's last
965
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,838
supper
966
00:48:35,119 --> 00:48:39,519
and his last spiritual breakfast with
967
00:48:37,838 --> 00:48:42,239
his disciples
968
00:48:39,519 --> 00:48:44,800
in the bright morning hours at the
969
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:47,598
joyful meeting on the shore of the
970
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:51,760
galilean sea
971
00:48:47,599 --> 00:48:56,079
his gloom had passed into glory
972
00:48:51,760 --> 00:49:01,119
and his disciples grief into repentance
973
00:48:56,079 --> 00:49:03,680
hearts chastened and pried rebuked
974
00:49:01,119 --> 00:49:05,838
convinced of the fruitlessness of their
975
00:49:03,679 --> 00:49:09,279
toil in the dark
976
00:49:05,838 --> 00:49:12,078
and awakened by their master's voice
977
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:15,119
they changed their methods
978
00:49:12,079 --> 00:49:19,680
turned away from material things
979
00:49:15,119 --> 00:49:19,680
and cast their net on the right side
980
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:26,159
discerning christ's truth anew on the
981
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:29,199
shore of time
982
00:49:26,159 --> 00:49:31,598
they were enabled to rise somewhat from
983
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:35,519
mortal sensuousness
984
00:49:31,599 --> 00:49:37,838
or the burial of mind in matter
985
00:49:35,519 --> 00:49:40,880
into newness of life
986
00:49:37,838 --> 00:49:40,880
as spirit
987
00:49:41,119 --> 00:49:47,519
this spiritual meeting with our lord
988
00:49:44,639 --> 00:49:50,118
in the dawn of a new light
989
00:49:47,519 --> 00:49:53,519
is the morning meal which christian
990
00:49:50,119 --> 00:49:56,240
scientists commemorate
991
00:49:53,519 --> 00:49:57,440
they bow before christ
992
00:49:56,239 --> 00:50:01,358
truth
993
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:04,559
to receive more of his reappearing
994
00:50:01,358 --> 00:50:06,000
and silently to commune with the divine
995
00:50:04,559 --> 00:50:08,400
principle
996
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:11,440
love
997
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:12,880
they celebrate their lord's victory over
998
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:17,119
death
999
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:21,519
his probation in the flesh after death
1000
00:50:17,119 --> 00:50:24,800
its exemplification of human probation
1001
00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:26,559
and his spiritual and final ascension
1002
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:28,318
above matter
1003
00:50:26,559 --> 00:50:33,359
or the flesh
1004
00:50:28,318 --> 00:50:33,358
when he rose out of material sight
1005
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:38,838
our baptism
1006
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:40,400
is a purification from all
1007
00:50:38,838 --> 00:50:43,039
error
1008
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:45,760
our church is built on the divine
1009
00:50:43,039 --> 00:50:49,679
principle love
1010
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:52,720
we can unite with this church only as we
1011
00:50:49,679 --> 00:50:56,318
are newborn of spirit
1012
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:59,199
as we reach the life which is truth
1013
00:50:56,318 --> 00:51:03,358
and the truth which is life
1014
00:50:59,199 --> 00:51:05,439
by bringing forth the fruits of love
1015
00:51:03,358 --> 00:51:08,799
casting out error
1016
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:12,159
and healing the sick
1017
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:14,800
our eucharist is spiritual communion
1018
00:51:12,159 --> 00:51:16,318
with the one god
1019
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,960
our bread
1020
00:51:16,318 --> 00:51:21,679
which cometh down from heaven
1021
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:24,720
is truth
1022
00:51:21,679 --> 00:51:28,960
our cup is the cross
1023
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:31,679
our wine the inspiration of love
1024
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:36,199
the draft our master drank
1025
00:51:31,679 --> 00:51:36,199
and commended to his followers
1026
00:51:37,199 --> 00:51:42,960
the design of love
1027
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:46,079
is to reform the sinner
1028
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:49,199
if the sinner's punishment here has been
1029
00:51:46,079 --> 00:51:52,000
insufficient to reform him
1030
00:51:49,199 --> 00:51:54,159
the good man's heaven would be a hell to
1031
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:57,599
the sinner
1032
00:51:54,159 --> 00:51:59,598
they who know not purity and affection
1033
00:51:57,599 --> 00:52:02,400
by experience
1034
00:51:59,599 --> 00:52:05,599
can never find bliss in the blessed
1035
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:08,800
company of truth and love
1036
00:52:05,599 --> 00:52:11,280
simply through translation into another
1037
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:14,800
sphere
1038
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:16,880
divine science reveals the necessity of
1039
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:20,160
sufficient suffering
1040
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:24,160
either before or after death
1041
00:52:20,159 --> 00:52:27,679
to quench the love of sin
1042
00:52:24,159 --> 00:52:31,838
to remit the penalty due for sin
1043
00:52:27,679 --> 00:52:34,639
would be for truth to pardon error
1044
00:52:31,838 --> 00:52:38,318
escape from punishment is not in
1045
00:52:34,639 --> 00:52:39,920
accordance with god's government
1046
00:52:38,318 --> 00:52:44,079
since justice
1047
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:44,079
is the handmaid of mercy
1048
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:50,880
jesus endured the shame
1049
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:54,000
that he might pour his dearbot bounty
1050
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:57,358
into barren lives
1051
00:52:54,000 --> 00:53:00,880
what was his earthly reward
1052
00:52:57,358 --> 00:53:03,358
he was forsaken by all saved john
1053
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:07,200
the beloved disciple
1054
00:53:03,358 --> 00:53:11,598
and a few women who bowed in silent woe
1055
00:53:07,199 --> 00:53:11,598
beneath the shadow of his cross
1056
00:53:11,838 --> 00:53:17,838
the earthly price of spirituality
1057
00:53:15,358 --> 00:53:20,598
in a material age
1058
00:53:17,838 --> 00:53:24,318
and the great moral distance between
1059
00:53:20,599 --> 00:53:27,519
christianity and sensualism
1060
00:53:24,318 --> 00:53:32,079
preclude christian science from finding
1061
00:53:27,519 --> 00:53:32,079
favor with the worldly minded
1062
00:53:32,559 --> 00:53:41,440
a selfish and limited mind may be unjust
1063
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:45,280
but the unlimited and divine mind is the
1064
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:47,838
immortal law of justice as well as of
1065
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,839
mercy
1066
00:53:48,159 --> 00:53:54,000
it is quite as impossible for sinners to
1067
00:53:51,358 --> 00:53:56,558
receive their full punishment
1068
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:59,280
this side of the grave
1069
00:53:56,559 --> 00:54:03,359
as for this world to bestow on the
1070
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:03,359
righteous their full reward
1071
00:54:03,838 --> 00:54:10,400
it is useless to suppose that the wicked
1072
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:12,318
can gloat over their offenses to the
1073
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:15,280
last moment
1074
00:54:12,318 --> 00:54:17,358
and then be suddenly pardoned and pushed
1075
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:20,720
into heaven
1076
00:54:17,358 --> 00:54:23,519
or that the hand of love is satisfied
1077
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,039
with giving us only toil
1078
00:54:23,519 --> 00:54:26,960
sacrifice
1079
00:54:25,039 --> 00:54:29,279
cross bearing
1080
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:32,240
multiplied trials
1081
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:37,880
and mockery of our motives
1082
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:37,879
in return for our efforts at well-doing
1083
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:44,559
religious history repeats itself
1084
00:54:41,679 --> 00:54:47,118
in the suffering of the just for the
1085
00:54:44,559 --> 00:54:50,839
unjust
1086
00:54:47,119 --> 00:54:54,000
can god therefore overlook the law of
1087
00:54:50,838 --> 00:54:56,400
righteousness which destroys the belief
1088
00:54:54,000 --> 00:55:00,159
called sin
1089
00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:05,440
does not science show that sin brings
1090
00:55:00,159 --> 00:55:07,199
suffering as much today as yesterday
1091
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:09,440
they who sin
1092
00:55:07,199 --> 00:55:12,239
must suffer
1093
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:14,798
with what measure ye meet it shall be
1094
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:17,519
measured to you again
1095
00:55:14,798 --> 00:55:17,519
end quote
1096
00:55:17,838 --> 00:55:26,078
history is full of records of suffering
1097
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:28,480
the blood of the martyrs is the seed of
1098
00:55:26,079 --> 00:55:32,720
the church
1099
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:35,599
mortals try in vain to slay truth with
1100
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:39,358
the steel or the stake
1101
00:55:35,599 --> 00:55:41,838
but error falls only before the sword of
1102
00:55:39,358 --> 00:55:41,838
spirit
1103
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:48,639
martyrs are the human links which
1104
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:52,240
connect one stage with another
1105
00:55:48,639 --> 00:55:55,279
in the history of religion
1106
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:58,558
they are earth's luminaries
1107
00:55:55,280 --> 00:56:00,000
which serve to cleanse and rarify the
1108
00:55:58,559 --> 00:56:02,400
atmosphere
1109
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:05,760
of material sense
1110
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:08,559
and to permeate humanity with purer
1111
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:08,559
ideals
1112
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:13,838
consciousness of right doing brings its
1113
00:56:11,838 --> 00:56:16,960
own reward
1114
00:56:13,838 --> 00:56:19,920
but not amid the smoke of battle is
1115
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:23,039
merit seen and appreciated
1116
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,039
by lookers on
1117
00:56:23,119 --> 00:56:31,200
when will jesus professed followers
1118
00:56:26,798 --> 00:56:35,759
learn to emulate him in all his ways
1119
00:56:31,199 --> 00:56:35,759
and to imitate his mighty works
1120
00:56:35,838 --> 00:56:40,639
those who procured the martyrdom of that
1121
00:56:39,039 --> 00:56:43,358
righteous man
1122
00:56:40,639 --> 00:56:44,558
would gladly have turned his sacred
1123
00:56:43,358 --> 00:56:49,920
career
1124
00:56:44,559 --> 00:56:49,920
into a mutilated doctrinal platform
1125
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:55,838
may the christians of today
1126
00:56:52,798 --> 00:56:58,239
take up the more practical import of
1127
00:56:55,838 --> 00:57:00,480
that career
1128
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,519
it is possible
1129
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,880
yay
1130
00:57:01,519 --> 00:57:08,000
it is the duty and privilege of every
1131
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:11,680
child man and woman
1132
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:13,280
to follow in some degree the example of
1133
00:57:11,679 --> 00:57:17,679
the master
1134
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:19,040
by the demonstration of truth and life
1135
00:57:17,679 --> 00:57:22,000
of health
1136
00:57:19,039 --> 00:57:22,000
and holiness
1137
00:57:22,159 --> 00:57:27,838
christians claim to be his
1138
00:57:24,838 --> 00:57:30,639
followers but do they follow him in the
1139
00:57:27,838 --> 00:57:34,639
way that he commanded
1140
00:57:30,639 --> 00:57:37,358
hear these imperative commands
1141
00:57:34,639 --> 00:57:40,159
be ye therefore perfect
1142
00:57:37,358 --> 00:57:42,719
even as your father which is in heaven
1143
00:57:40,159 --> 00:57:46,159
is perfect
1144
00:57:42,719 --> 00:57:49,358
go ye into all the world and preach the
1145
00:57:46,159 --> 00:57:51,759
gospel to every creature
1146
00:57:49,358 --> 00:57:54,798
heal the sick
1147
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:58,559
end quote
1148
00:57:54,798 --> 00:58:02,239
why has this christian demand so little
1149
00:57:58,559 --> 00:58:04,480
inspiration to stir mankind to christian
1150
00:58:02,239 --> 00:58:06,798
effort
1151
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:09,599
because men are assured that this
1152
00:58:06,798 --> 00:58:11,519
command was intended only for a
1153
00:58:09,599 --> 00:58:15,838
particular period
1154
00:58:11,519 --> 00:58:17,519
and for a select number of followers
1155
00:58:15,838 --> 00:58:20,558
this teaching
1156
00:58:17,519 --> 00:58:23,519
is even more pernicious than the old
1157
00:58:20,559 --> 00:58:27,200
doctrine of for ordination
1158
00:58:23,519 --> 00:58:30,559
the election of a few to be saved
1159
00:58:27,199 --> 00:58:33,519
while the rest are damned
1160
00:58:30,559 --> 00:58:37,200
and so it will be considered
1161
00:58:33,519 --> 00:58:39,358
when the lethargy of mortals produced by
1162
00:58:37,199 --> 00:58:43,279
man-made doctrines
1163
00:58:39,358 --> 00:58:45,838
is broken by the demands of divine
1164
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,839
science
1165
00:58:46,559 --> 00:58:51,280
jesus said
1166
00:58:48,639 --> 00:58:53,039
these signs shall follow them that
1167
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:55,839
believe
1168
00:58:53,039 --> 00:58:59,199
they shall lay hands on the sick
1169
00:58:55,838 --> 00:58:59,199
and they shall recover
1170
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:05,119
who believes him
1171
00:59:02,159 --> 00:59:07,440
he was addressing his disciples
1172
00:59:05,119 --> 00:59:10,720
yet he did not say
1173
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:12,639
these signs shall follow you
1174
00:59:10,719 --> 00:59:14,798
but them
1175
00:59:12,639 --> 00:59:18,159
them that believe
1176
00:59:14,798 --> 00:59:21,280
in all time to come
1177
00:59:18,159 --> 00:59:23,118
here the word hands is used
1178
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:25,119
metaphorically
1179
00:59:23,119 --> 00:59:30,079
as in the text
1180
00:59:25,119 --> 00:59:34,079
the right hand of the lord is exalted
1181
00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:36,480
it expresses spiritual power
1182
00:59:34,079 --> 00:59:40,240
otherwise the healing could not have
1183
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:40,240
been done spiritually
1184
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:46,480
at another time jesus prayed
1185
00:59:43,838 --> 00:59:49,519
not for the twelve only
1186
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:52,639
but for as many as should believe
1187
00:59:49,519 --> 00:59:52,639
through their word
1188
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:59,440
jesus experienced few of the pleasures
1189
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:02,079
of the physical senses
1190
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:04,559
but his sufferings were the fruits of
1191
01:00:02,079 --> 01:00:07,760
other people's sins
1192
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:10,079
not of his own
1193
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:12,960
the eternal christ
1194
01:00:10,079 --> 01:00:15,839
his spiritual selfhood
1195
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,838
never suffered
1196
01:00:16,079 --> 01:00:22,480
jesus mapped out the path for others
1197
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:27,119
he unveiled the christ
1198
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:30,639
the spiritual idea of divine love
1199
01:00:27,119 --> 01:00:32,079
to those buried in the belief of sin and
1200
01:00:30,639 --> 01:00:34,558
self
1201
01:00:32,079 --> 01:00:37,920
living only for pleasure
1202
01:00:34,559 --> 01:00:40,640
or the gratification of the senses
1203
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:43,760
he said in substance
1204
01:00:40,639 --> 01:00:47,199
having eyes ye see not
1205
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:49,760
and having ears ye hear not
1206
01:00:47,199 --> 01:00:54,639
lest ye should understand and be
1207
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:54,640
converted and i might heal you
1208
01:00:54,960 --> 01:01:00,000
he taught that the material senses shut
1209
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:03,440
out truth
1210
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,440
and its healing power
1211
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:11,519
meekly our master met the mockery of his
1212
01:01:08,039 --> 01:01:14,880
unrecognized grandeur
1213
01:01:11,519 --> 01:01:17,358
such indignities as he received
1214
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:19,280
his followers will endure
1215
01:01:17,358 --> 01:01:21,920
until christianity's
1216
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:25,280
last triumph
1217
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:27,838
he won eternal honors
1218
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:29,119
he overcame the world
1219
01:01:27,838 --> 01:01:31,279
the flesh
1220
01:01:29,119 --> 01:01:35,200
and all error
1221
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:38,559
thus proving their nothingness
1222
01:01:35,199 --> 01:01:42,000
he wrought a full salvation from sin
1223
01:01:38,559 --> 01:01:47,040
sickness and death
1224
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:49,119
we need christ and him crucified
1225
01:01:47,039 --> 01:01:51,358
we must have trials
1226
01:01:49,119 --> 01:01:54,960
and self-denials
1227
01:01:51,358 --> 01:01:59,759
as well as joys and victories
1228
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:59,760
until all error is destroyed
1229
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:05,599
the educated belief that soul is in the
1230
01:02:04,318 --> 01:02:08,558
body
1231
01:02:05,599 --> 01:02:09,920
causes mortals to regard death as a
1232
01:02:08,559 --> 01:02:13,359
friend
1233
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:17,920
as a stepping stone out of mortality
1234
01:02:13,358 --> 01:02:21,358
into immortality and bliss
1235
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:25,280
the bible calls death an enemy
1236
01:02:21,358 --> 01:02:29,279
and jesus overcame death and the grave
1237
01:02:25,280 --> 01:02:31,920
instead of yielding to them
1238
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:35,280
he was the way
1239
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:38,480
to him therefore death was not the
1240
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:41,839
threshold over which he must pass
1241
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,838
into living glory
1242
01:02:42,079 --> 01:02:47,200
now cried the apostle
1243
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:48,798
is the accepted time
1244
01:02:47,199 --> 01:02:52,960
behold
1245
01:02:48,798 --> 01:02:56,480
now is the day of salvation
1246
01:02:52,960 --> 01:03:01,199
meaning not that now men must prepare
1247
01:02:56,480 --> 01:03:04,159
for a future world salvation or safety
1248
01:03:01,199 --> 01:03:07,038
but that now is the time in which to
1249
01:03:04,159 --> 01:03:08,639
experience that salvation
1250
01:03:07,039 --> 01:03:11,359
in spirit
1251
01:03:08,639 --> 01:03:14,879
and in life
1252
01:03:11,358 --> 01:03:18,480
now is the time for so-called material
1253
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:20,000
pains and material pleasures to pass
1254
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:22,719
away
1255
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:28,000
for both are unreal
1256
01:03:22,719 --> 01:03:31,199
because impossible in science
1257
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:34,318
to break this earthly spell
1258
01:03:31,199 --> 01:03:37,759
mortals must get the true idea
1259
01:03:34,318 --> 01:03:39,119
and divine principle of all that really
1260
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:44,200
exists
1261
01:03:39,119 --> 01:03:44,200
and governs the universe harmoniously
1262
01:03:44,559 --> 01:03:51,119
this thought is apprehended slowly
1263
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:54,880
and the interval before its attainment
1264
01:03:51,119 --> 01:03:58,559
is attended with doubts and defeats
1265
01:03:54,880 --> 01:04:01,519
as well as triumphs
1266
01:03:58,559 --> 01:04:04,480
who will stop the practice of sin
1267
01:04:01,519 --> 01:04:07,038
so long as he believes in the pleasures
1268
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:10,240
of sin
1269
01:04:07,039 --> 01:04:12,799
when mortals once admit that evil
1270
01:04:10,239 --> 01:04:15,919
confers no pleasure
1271
01:04:12,798 --> 01:04:18,719
they turn from it
1272
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:22,720
remove error from thought
1273
01:04:18,719 --> 01:04:25,199
and it will not appear in effect
1274
01:04:22,719 --> 01:04:26,558
the advanced thinker and devout
1275
01:04:25,199 --> 01:04:29,519
christian
1276
01:04:26,559 --> 01:04:33,039
perceiving the scope and tendency of
1277
01:04:29,519 --> 01:04:36,000
christian healing and its science
1278
01:04:33,039 --> 01:04:37,920
will support them
1279
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:40,798
another will say
1280
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:43,519
go thy way for this time
1281
01:04:40,798 --> 01:04:46,960
when i have a convenient season
1282
01:04:43,519 --> 01:04:46,960
i will call for thee
1283
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:54,880
divine science adjusts the balance as
1284
01:04:51,599 --> 01:04:58,640
jesus adjusted it
1285
01:04:54,880 --> 01:05:02,318
science removes the penalty only by
1286
01:04:58,639 --> 01:05:04,960
first removing the sin which incurs the
1287
01:05:02,318 --> 01:05:09,358
penalty
1288
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:12,159
this is my sense of divine pardon
1289
01:05:09,358 --> 01:05:17,119
which i understand to mean
1290
01:05:12,159 --> 01:05:17,118
god's method of destroying sin
1291
01:05:17,199 --> 01:05:23,279
if the saying is true
1292
01:05:19,838 --> 01:05:26,639
while there's life there's hope
1293
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:28,720
it's opposite is also true
1294
01:05:26,639 --> 01:05:31,598
while there's sin
1295
01:05:28,719 --> 01:05:31,598
there's doom
1296
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:38,880
another's suffering cannot lessen our
1297
01:05:35,519 --> 01:05:38,880
own liability
1298
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:44,159
did the martyrdom
1299
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:46,799
of savannah rolla
1300
01:05:44,159 --> 01:05:50,960
make the crimes of his implacable
1301
01:05:46,798 --> 01:05:55,199
enemies less criminal
1302
01:05:50,960 --> 01:05:56,720
was it just for jesus to suffer
1303
01:05:55,199 --> 01:05:59,199
no
1304
01:05:56,719 --> 01:06:02,239
but it was inevitable
1305
01:05:59,199 --> 01:06:06,558
for not otherwise could he show us the
1306
01:06:02,239 --> 01:06:10,558
way and the power of truth
1307
01:06:06,559 --> 01:06:14,960
if a career so great and good as that of
1308
01:06:10,559 --> 01:06:18,160
jesus could not avert a felon's fate
1309
01:06:14,960 --> 01:06:22,400
lesser apostles of truth may endure
1310
01:06:18,159 --> 01:06:25,679
human brutality without murmuring
1311
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:26,639
rejoicing to enter into fellowship with
1312
01:06:25,679 --> 01:06:30,159
him
1313
01:06:26,639 --> 01:06:33,159
through the triumphal ark of truth and
1314
01:06:30,159 --> 01:06:33,159
love
1315
01:06:33,519 --> 01:06:37,920
our heavenly father
1316
01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:41,039
divine love
1317
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:45,280
demands that all men should follow the
1318
01:06:41,039 --> 01:06:50,280
example of our master and his apostles
1319
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:50,280
and not merely worship his personality
1320
01:06:50,559 --> 01:06:58,000
it is sad that the phrase divine service
1321
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:59,280
has come so generally to mean public
1322
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:03,519
worship
1323
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:03,519
instead of daily deeds
1324
01:07:05,039 --> 01:07:10,640
the nature of christianity is peaceful
1325
01:07:08,719 --> 01:07:13,919
and blessed
1326
01:07:10,639 --> 01:07:17,199
but in order to enter into the kingdom
1327
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:19,440
the anchor of hope must be cast beyond
1328
01:07:17,199 --> 01:07:22,879
the veil of matter
1329
01:07:19,440 --> 01:07:25,760
into the shekinah into which jesus has
1330
01:07:22,880 --> 01:07:28,960
passed before us
1331
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:31,920
and this advance beyond matter
1332
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:33,519
must come through the joys and triumphs
1333
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:36,000
of the righteous
1334
01:07:33,519 --> 01:07:38,318
as well as through their sorrows and
1335
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:40,400
afflictions
1336
01:07:38,318 --> 01:07:43,759
like our master
1337
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:48,240
we must depart from material sense
1338
01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:52,160
into the spiritual sense of being
1339
01:07:48,239 --> 01:07:56,000
the god inspired walk calmly on
1340
01:07:52,159 --> 01:07:58,239
though it be with bleeding footprints
1341
01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:02,079
and in the hereafter
1342
01:07:58,239 --> 01:08:04,318
they will reap what they now sow
1343
01:08:02,079 --> 01:08:07,920
the pampered hypocrite
1344
01:08:04,318 --> 01:08:10,798
may have a flowery pathway here
1345
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:12,000
but he cannot forever break the golden
1346
01:08:10,798 --> 01:08:15,920
rule
1347
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:18,000
and escape the penalty do
1348
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:20,319
the proofs of truth
1349
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:24,158
life and love
1350
01:08:20,319 --> 01:08:26,400
which jesus gave by casting out error
1351
01:08:24,158 --> 01:08:30,000
and healing the sick
1352
01:08:26,399 --> 01:08:32,639
completed his earthly mission
1353
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:35,520
but in the christian church
1354
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:37,359
this demonstration of healing was early
1355
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:42,159
lost
1356
01:08:37,359 --> 01:08:45,520
three centuries after the crucifixion
1357
01:08:42,158 --> 01:08:47,679
no ancient school of philosophy
1358
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:50,159
materia medica
1359
01:08:47,679 --> 01:08:52,798
or scholastic theology
1360
01:08:50,158 --> 01:08:54,639
ever taught or demonstrated
1361
01:08:52,798 --> 01:08:58,158
the divine healing
1362
01:08:54,640 --> 01:09:01,279
of absolute science
1363
01:08:58,158 --> 01:09:04,599
jesus foresaw the reception christian
1364
01:09:01,279 --> 01:09:07,359
science would have before it was
1365
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:09,679
understood but this foreknowledge
1366
01:09:07,359 --> 01:09:13,279
hindered him not
1367
01:09:09,679 --> 01:09:16,079
he fulfilled his god mission
1368
01:09:13,279 --> 01:09:18,560
and then sat down at the right hand of
1369
01:09:16,079 --> 01:09:21,838
the father
1370
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:25,199
persecuted from city to city
1371
01:09:21,838 --> 01:09:26,559
his apostles still went about doing good
1372
01:09:25,198 --> 01:09:31,919
deeds
1373
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:34,480
for which they were maligned and stoned
1374
01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:37,359
the truth taught by jesus
1375
01:09:34,479 --> 01:09:39,039
the elders scoffed at
1376
01:09:37,359 --> 01:09:41,759
why
1377
01:09:39,039 --> 01:09:44,479
because it demanded more than they were
1378
01:09:41,759 --> 01:09:47,679
willing to practice
1379
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:50,399
it was enough for them to believe in a
1380
01:09:47,679 --> 01:09:52,239
national deity
1381
01:09:50,399 --> 01:09:54,639
but that belief
1382
01:09:52,238 --> 01:09:57,759
from their time to hours
1383
01:09:54,640 --> 01:10:00,840
has never made a disciple who could cast
1384
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:02,719
out evils and heal the
1385
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:06,000
sick
1386
01:10:02,719 --> 01:10:07,760
jesus life proved divinely and
1387
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:10,719
scientifically
1388
01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:12,079
that god is love
1389
01:10:10,719 --> 01:10:15,679
whereas
1390
01:10:12,079 --> 01:10:17,760
priest and rabbi affirmed god to be a
1391
01:10:15,679 --> 01:10:21,440
mighty potentate
1392
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:24,960
who loves and hates
1393
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:30,079
the jewish theology gave no hint
1394
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:33,039
of the unchanging love of god
1395
01:10:30,079 --> 01:10:35,760
universal belief in death
1396
01:10:33,039 --> 01:10:41,279
is of no advantage
1397
01:10:35,760 --> 01:10:41,280
it cannot make life or truth apparent
1398
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:46,880
death will be found at length to be a
1399
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:49,279
mortal dream
1400
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:53,359
which comes in darkness
1401
01:10:49,279 --> 01:10:55,439
and disappears with the light
1402
01:10:53,359 --> 01:10:58,639
the man of sorrows
1403
01:10:55,439 --> 01:11:00,879
was in no peril from salary or
1404
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:03,600
popularity
1405
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:04,800
though entitled to the homage of the
1406
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:07,600
world
1407
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:10,079
and endorsed preeminently by the
1408
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:14,560
approval of god
1409
01:11:10,079 --> 01:11:18,479
his brief triumphal entry into jerusalem
1410
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:20,880
was followed by the desertion of all
1411
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:23,839
save a few friends
1412
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:27,079
who sadly followed him to the foot of
1413
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:27,079
the cross
1414
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:32,880
the resurrection of the great
1415
01:11:29,679 --> 01:11:36,399
demonstrator of god's power
1416
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:39,520
was the proof of his final triumph over
1417
01:11:36,399 --> 01:11:43,920
body and matter
1418
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:49,040
and gave full evidence of divine science
1419
01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:49,039
evidence so important to mortals
1420
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:55,760
the belief that man has existence or
1421
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:58,880
mind separate from god
1422
01:11:55,760 --> 01:12:03,679
is a dying error
1423
01:11:58,880 --> 01:12:07,359
this error jesus met with divine science
1424
01:12:03,679 --> 01:12:10,880
and proved its nothingness
1425
01:12:07,359 --> 01:12:13,839
because of the wondrous glory which god
1426
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:15,199
bestowed on his anointed
1427
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,319
temptation
1428
01:12:15,198 --> 01:12:18,479
sin
1429
01:12:16,319 --> 01:12:22,479
sickness and death
1430
01:12:18,479 --> 01:12:26,559
had no terror for jesus
1431
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:28,158
let men think they had killed the body
1432
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:32,400
afterwards
1433
01:12:28,158 --> 01:12:34,559
he would show it to them unchanged
1434
01:12:32,399 --> 01:12:36,799
this demonstrates
1435
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:40,719
that in christian science
1436
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:43,760
the true man is governed by god
1437
01:12:40,719 --> 01:12:47,039
by good not evil
1438
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:50,400
and is therefore not immortal
1439
01:12:47,039 --> 01:12:53,039
but an immortal
1440
01:12:50,399 --> 01:12:56,238
jesus had taught his disciples the
1441
01:12:53,039 --> 01:12:59,600
science of this proof
1442
01:12:56,238 --> 01:13:02,879
he was here to enable them to test his
1443
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:05,520
still uncomprehended saying
1444
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:10,960
he that believeth on me
1445
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:10,960
the works that i do shall he do also
1446
01:13:11,439 --> 01:13:16,879
they must understand more fully his life
1447
01:13:15,279 --> 01:13:19,439
principle
1448
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:21,199
by casting out error
1449
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:23,759
healing the sick
1450
01:13:21,198 --> 01:13:27,119
and raising the dead
1451
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:30,400
even as they did understand it after his
1452
01:13:27,119 --> 01:13:30,399
bodily departure
1453
01:13:31,119 --> 01:13:37,599
the magnitude of jesus work
1454
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:38,799
his material disappearance before their
1455
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:41,199
eyes
1456
01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:44,800
and his reappearance
1457
01:13:41,198 --> 01:13:48,319
all enabled the disciples to understand
1458
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:49,920
what jesus had said
1459
01:13:48,319 --> 01:13:52,880
heretofore
1460
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:56,239
they had only believed
1461
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:59,679
now they understood
1462
01:13:56,238 --> 01:14:02,639
the advent of this understanding is what
1463
01:13:59,679 --> 01:14:04,158
is meant by the descent of the holy
1464
01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:07,440
ghost
1465
01:14:04,158 --> 01:14:11,679
that influx of divine science
1466
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:16,879
which so illuminated the pentecostal day
1467
01:14:11,679 --> 01:14:16,880
and is now repeating its ancient history
1468
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:23,920
jesus last proof was the highest
1469
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:28,239
the most convincing
1470
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:32,239
the most profitable to his students
1471
01:14:28,238 --> 01:14:36,559
the malignity of brutal persecutors
1472
01:14:32,238 --> 01:14:40,079
the treason and suicide of his betrayer
1473
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:43,039
were overruled by divine love
1474
01:14:40,079 --> 01:14:46,319
to the glorification of the man
1475
01:14:43,039 --> 01:14:50,079
and of the true idea of god
1476
01:14:46,319 --> 01:14:53,439
which jesus persecutors had mocked
1477
01:14:50,079 --> 01:14:53,439
and tried to slay
1478
01:14:53,679 --> 01:14:58,560
the final demonstration of the truth
1479
01:14:56,399 --> 01:15:01,920
which jesus taught
1480
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:06,159
and for which he was crucified
1481
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:10,520
opened a new era for the world
1482
01:15:06,158 --> 01:15:15,119
those who slew him to stay his influence
1483
01:15:10,520 --> 01:15:15,120
perpetuated and extended it
1484
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:21,840
jesus rose higher in demonstration
1485
01:15:19,359 --> 01:15:23,839
because of the cup of bitterness he
1486
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:26,800
drank
1487
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:32,000
human law had condemned him
1488
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:35,039
but he was demonstrating divine science
1489
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:36,640
out of reach of the barbarity of his
1490
01:15:35,039 --> 01:15:40,399
enemies
1491
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:45,199
he was acting under spiritual law
1492
01:15:40,399 --> 01:15:50,319
in defiance of matter and mortality
1493
01:15:45,198 --> 01:15:53,919
and that spiritual law sustained him
1494
01:15:50,319 --> 01:15:56,799
the divine must overcome the human at
1495
01:15:53,920 --> 01:16:00,480
every point
1496
01:15:56,800 --> 01:16:04,320
the science jesus taught and lived
1497
01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:09,198
must triumph over all material beliefs
1498
01:16:04,319 --> 01:16:11,920
about life substance and intelligence
1499
01:16:09,198 --> 01:16:15,198
and the multitudinous errors growing
1500
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:15,199
from such beliefs
1501
01:16:15,359 --> 01:16:19,679
love
1502
01:16:16,319 --> 01:16:21,840
must triumph over hate
1503
01:16:19,679 --> 01:16:25,279
truth and life
1504
01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:26,560
must seal the victory over error and
1505
01:16:25,279 --> 01:16:29,679
death
1506
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:31,199
before the thorns can be laid aside for
1507
01:16:29,679 --> 01:16:32,840
a crown
1508
01:16:31,198 --> 01:16:35,599
the benediction
1509
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:38,560
follow well done
1510
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:41,360
good and faithful servant
1511
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:44,320
and the supremacy of spirit be
1512
01:16:41,359 --> 01:16:44,319
demonstrated
1513
01:16:45,279 --> 01:16:52,479
the lonely precincts of the tomb gave
1514
01:16:48,719 --> 01:16:55,279
jesus of refuge from his foes
1515
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:58,559
a place in which to solve the great
1516
01:16:55,279 --> 01:17:02,479
problem of being
1517
01:16:58,560 --> 01:17:07,120
his three days work in the sepulcher
1518
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:10,399
set the seal of eternity on time
1519
01:17:07,119 --> 01:17:14,960
he proved life to be deathless
1520
01:17:10,399 --> 01:17:18,319
and love to be the master of hate
1521
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:20,399
he met and mastered on the basis of
1522
01:17:18,319 --> 01:17:23,519
christian science
1523
01:17:20,399 --> 01:17:26,639
the power of mind over matter
1524
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:27,920
all the claims of medicine
1525
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:31,119
surgery
1526
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:35,520
and hygiene
1527
01:17:31,119 --> 01:17:39,439
he took no drugs to allay inflammation
1528
01:17:35,520 --> 01:17:43,199
he did not depend upon food or pure air
1529
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:45,519
to resuscitate wasted energies
1530
01:17:43,198 --> 01:17:46,559
he did not require the skill of a
1531
01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:49,360
surgeon
1532
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:52,400
to heal the torn palms
1533
01:17:49,359 --> 01:17:54,479
and bind up the wounded side and
1534
01:17:52,399 --> 01:17:57,599
lacerated feet
1535
01:17:54,479 --> 01:18:00,879
that he might use those hands to remove
1536
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:03,840
the napkin and winding sheet
1537
01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:06,319
and that he might employ his feet as
1538
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:06,319
before
1539
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:13,520
could it be called supernatural
1540
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:15,119
for the god of nature to sustain jesus
1541
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:19,679
in his proof
1542
01:18:15,119 --> 01:18:19,679
of man's truly derived power
1543
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:25,440
it was a method of surgery
1544
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:29,759
beyond material art
1545
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:32,000
but it was not a supernatural act
1546
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:35,600
on the contrary
1547
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:37,039
it was a divinely natural act
1548
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:40,560
whereby
1549
01:18:37,039 --> 01:18:42,960
divinity brought to humanity
1550
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:44,400
the understanding of the christ's
1551
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:48,399
healing
1552
01:18:44,399 --> 01:18:52,319
and revealed a method infinitely above
1553
01:18:48,399 --> 01:18:52,319
that of human invention
1554
01:18:52,960 --> 01:19:00,480
his disciples believed jesus to be dead
1555
01:18:57,279 --> 01:19:01,840
while he was hidden in the sepulchre
1556
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:03,919
whereas
1557
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:07,119
he was alive
1558
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:09,440
demonstrating within the narrow tomb
1559
01:19:07,119 --> 01:19:14,960
the power of spirit
1560
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:18,559
to overrule mortal material sense
1561
01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:21,039
there were rock-ribbed walls in the way
1562
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:23,679
and a great stone must be rolled from
1563
01:19:21,039 --> 01:19:26,960
the cave's mouth
1564
01:19:23,679 --> 01:19:28,800
but jesus vanquished every material
1565
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:32,399
obstacle
1566
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:34,880
overcame every law of matter
1567
01:19:32,399 --> 01:19:36,639
and stepped forth from his gloomy
1568
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:39,679
resting place
1569
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:41,199
crowned with the glory of a sublime
1570
01:19:39,679 --> 01:19:45,199
success
1571
01:19:41,198 --> 01:19:45,198
an everlasting victory
1572
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:52,560
our master fully and finally
1573
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:57,840
demonstrated divine science
1574
01:19:52,560 --> 01:20:01,360
in his victory over death and the grave
1575
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:02,480
jesus deed was for the enlightenment of
1576
01:20:01,359 --> 01:20:05,679
men
1577
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:07,198
and for the salvation of the whole world
1578
01:20:05,679 --> 01:20:08,399
from sin
1579
01:20:07,198 --> 01:20:11,198
sickness
1580
01:20:08,399 --> 01:20:11,198
and death
1581
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:16,079
paul writes
1582
01:20:13,359 --> 01:20:18,960
for if when we were enemies
1583
01:20:16,079 --> 01:20:23,039
we were reconciled to god
1584
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:26,239
by the seeming death of his son
1585
01:20:23,039 --> 01:20:30,158
much more being reconciled
1586
01:20:26,238 --> 01:20:33,198
we shall be saved by his life
1587
01:20:30,158 --> 01:20:36,960
end quote
1588
01:20:33,198 --> 01:20:40,319
three days after his bodily burial
1589
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:43,198
he talked with his disciples
1590
01:20:40,319 --> 01:20:48,880
the persecutors had failed to hide
1591
01:20:43,198 --> 01:20:48,879
immortal truth and love in a sepulcher
1592
01:20:49,359 --> 01:20:55,279
glory be to god
1593
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:58,000
and peace to the struggling hearts
1594
01:20:55,279 --> 01:21:01,599
christ hath rolled away the stone from
1595
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:04,079
the door of human hope and faith
1596
01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:07,679
and through the revelation and
1597
01:21:04,079 --> 01:21:09,679
demonstration of life in god
1598
01:21:07,679 --> 01:21:12,800
hath elevated them
1599
01:21:09,679 --> 01:21:16,000
to possible at one moment with the
1600
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:18,639
spiritual idea of man
1601
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:21,039
and his divine principle
1602
01:21:18,639 --> 01:21:21,039
love
1603
01:21:21,359 --> 01:21:26,079
they who earliest saw jesus after the
1604
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:29,120
resurrection
1605
01:21:26,079 --> 01:21:30,920
and beheld the final proof of all that
1606
01:21:29,119 --> 01:21:34,800
he had taught
1607
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:34,800
misconstrued that event
1608
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:39,439
even his disciples at first called him a
1609
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:40,639
spirit
1610
01:21:39,439 --> 01:21:42,638
ghost
1611
01:21:40,639 --> 01:21:47,279
or spectre
1612
01:21:42,639 --> 01:21:49,760
for they believed his body to be dead
1613
01:21:47,279 --> 01:21:53,439
his reply was
1614
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:56,639
spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye
1615
01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:59,919
see me have
1616
01:21:56,639 --> 01:22:03,039
the reappearing of jesus was not the
1617
01:21:59,920 --> 01:22:06,560
return of a spirit
1618
01:22:03,039 --> 01:22:09,760
he presented the same body that he had
1619
01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:14,320
before his crucifixion
1620
01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:17,199
and so glorified the supremacy of mind
1621
01:22:14,319 --> 01:22:17,198
over matter
1622
01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:23,360
jesus students
1623
01:22:20,079 --> 01:22:26,639
not sufficiently advanced fully to
1624
01:22:23,359 --> 01:22:30,639
understand their master's triumph
1625
01:22:26,639 --> 01:22:35,119
did not perform many wonderful works
1626
01:22:30,639 --> 01:22:39,840
until they saw him after his crucifixion
1627
01:22:35,119 --> 01:22:39,840
and learned that he had not died
1628
01:22:40,079 --> 01:22:47,279
this convinced them of the truthfulness
1629
01:22:43,279 --> 01:22:47,279
of all that he had taught
1630
01:22:49,039 --> 01:22:54,158
in the walk to emmaus
1631
01:22:51,279 --> 01:22:57,599
jesus was known to his friends by the
1632
01:22:54,158 --> 01:22:58,960
words which made their heart burn within
1633
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:02,480
them
1634
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:06,239
and by the breaking of bread
1635
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:08,718
the divine spirit which identified jesus
1636
01:23:06,238 --> 01:23:12,079
thus centuries ago
1637
01:23:08,719 --> 01:23:15,198
has spoken through the inspired word
1638
01:23:12,079 --> 01:23:17,198
and will speak through it in every age
1639
01:23:15,198 --> 01:23:20,879
and climb
1640
01:23:17,198 --> 01:23:24,960
it is revealed to the receptive heart
1641
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:28,239
and is again seen casting out evil
1642
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,239
and healing the sick
1643
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:34,480
the master said plainly
1644
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:36,960
that physique was not spirit
1645
01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:40,000
and after his resurrection
1646
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:43,359
he proved to the physical senses
1647
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:45,840
that his body was not changed until he
1648
01:23:43,359 --> 01:23:48,399
himself ascended
1649
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:52,239
or in other words
1650
01:23:48,399 --> 01:23:53,599
rose even higher in the understanding of
1651
01:23:52,238 --> 01:23:55,759
spirit
1652
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:58,719
god
1653
01:23:55,760 --> 01:24:01,679
to convince thomas of this
1654
01:23:58,719 --> 01:24:02,719
jesus caused him to examine the nail
1655
01:24:01,679 --> 01:24:05,840
prints
1656
01:24:02,719 --> 01:24:09,359
and the spear wound
1657
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:12,400
jesus unchanged physical condition
1658
01:24:09,359 --> 01:24:16,079
after what seemed to be death
1659
01:24:12,399 --> 01:24:19,279
was followed by his exaltation above all
1660
01:24:16,079 --> 01:24:22,559
material conditions
1661
01:24:19,279 --> 01:24:24,399
and this exaltation explained his
1662
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:27,039
ascension
1663
01:24:24,399 --> 01:24:30,079
and revealed unmistakably
1664
01:24:27,039 --> 01:24:33,359
a probationary and progressive state
1665
01:24:30,079 --> 01:24:36,158
beyond the grave
1666
01:24:33,359 --> 01:24:37,519
jesus was the way
1667
01:24:36,158 --> 01:24:41,599
that is
1668
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:44,960
he marked the way for all men
1669
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:46,560
in his final demonstration called the
1670
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:50,399
ascension
1671
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:53,440
which closed the earthly record of jesus
1672
01:24:50,399 --> 01:24:55,439
he rose above the physical knowledge of
1673
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:58,399
his disciples
1674
01:24:55,439 --> 01:25:01,039
and the material senses saw him
1675
01:24:58,399 --> 01:25:01,039
no more
1676
01:25:01,119 --> 01:25:05,760
his students then received the holy
1677
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:07,920
ghost
1678
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:10,320
by this is meant
1679
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:11,520
that by all they had witnessed and
1680
01:25:10,319 --> 01:25:13,840
suffered
1681
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:17,600
they were roused to an enlarged
1682
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:21,119
understanding of divine science
1683
01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:22,480
even to the spiritual interpretation and
1684
01:25:21,119 --> 01:25:26,319
discernment
1685
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:29,198
of jesus teachings and demonstrations
1686
01:25:26,319 --> 01:25:32,799
which gave them a faint conception of
1687
01:25:29,198 --> 01:25:36,158
the life which is god
1688
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:38,480
they no longer measured man by material
1689
01:25:36,158 --> 01:25:38,479
sense
1690
01:25:38,639 --> 01:25:44,079
after gaining the true idea of their
1691
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:47,199
glorified master
1692
01:25:44,079 --> 01:25:50,319
they became better healers
1693
01:25:47,198 --> 01:25:53,359
leaning no longer on matter
1694
01:25:50,319 --> 01:25:55,279
but on the divine principle of their
1695
01:25:53,359 --> 01:25:58,639
work
1696
01:25:55,279 --> 01:26:02,479
the influx of light was sudden
1697
01:25:58,639 --> 01:26:06,800
it was sometimes an overwhelming power
1698
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:06,799
as on the day of pentecost
1699
01:26:07,198 --> 01:26:14,719
judas conspired against jesus
1700
01:26:11,279 --> 01:26:17,039
the world's ingratitude and hatred
1701
01:26:14,719 --> 01:26:20,158
towards that just man
1702
01:26:17,039 --> 01:26:23,198
affected his betrayal
1703
01:26:20,158 --> 01:26:24,559
the traitor's price was 30 pieces of
1704
01:26:23,198 --> 01:26:28,799
silver
1705
01:26:24,560 --> 01:26:31,120
and the smiles of the pharisees
1706
01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:34,000
he chose his time
1707
01:26:31,119 --> 01:26:37,279
when the people were in doubt concerning
1708
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:39,679
jesus teachings
1709
01:26:37,279 --> 01:26:43,039
a period was approaching
1710
01:26:39,679 --> 01:26:47,359
which would reveal the infinite distance
1711
01:26:43,039 --> 01:26:51,198
between judas and his master
1712
01:26:47,359 --> 01:26:52,319
judas iscariot knew this
1713
01:26:51,198 --> 01:26:55,439
he knew
1714
01:26:52,319 --> 01:26:58,399
that the great goodness of that master
1715
01:26:55,439 --> 01:27:00,000
placed a gulf between jesus and his
1716
01:26:58,399 --> 01:27:03,198
betrayer
1717
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:06,158
and this spiritual distance inflamed
1718
01:27:03,198 --> 01:27:08,879
judas's envy
1719
01:27:06,158 --> 01:27:10,719
the greed for gold strengthened his
1720
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:15,520
ingratitude
1721
01:27:10,719 --> 01:27:18,639
and for a time quieted his remorse
1722
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:21,840
he knew that the world generally loves a
1723
01:27:18,639 --> 01:27:25,600
lie better than truth
1724
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:30,719
and so he plotted the betrayal of jesus
1725
01:27:25,600 --> 01:27:30,719
in order to raise himself in popular
1726
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:35,600
estimation his dark plot fell to the
1727
01:27:34,079 --> 01:27:39,359
ground
1728
01:27:35,600 --> 01:27:42,560
and the traitor fell with it
1729
01:27:39,359 --> 01:27:45,279
the disciples desertion of their master
1730
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:47,039
in his last earthly struggle was
1731
01:27:45,279 --> 01:27:50,399
punished
1732
01:27:47,039 --> 01:27:52,800
each one came to a violent death
1733
01:27:50,399 --> 01:27:57,119
except saint john
1734
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:57,119
of whose death we have no record
1735
01:27:57,279 --> 01:28:02,800
during his night of gloom and glory in
1736
01:28:01,039 --> 01:28:06,319
the garden
1737
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:09,679
jesus realized the utter error of a
1738
01:28:06,319 --> 01:28:12,000
belief in any possible material
1739
01:28:09,679 --> 01:28:15,359
intelligence
1740
01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:19,439
the pangs of neglect and the staves of
1741
01:28:15,359 --> 01:28:22,719
bigoted ignorance smote him sorely
1742
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:24,638
his students slept
1743
01:28:22,719 --> 01:28:28,800
he said unto them
1744
01:28:24,639 --> 01:28:31,279
could ye not watch with me one hour
1745
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:32,079
could they not watch with him
1746
01:28:31,279 --> 01:28:34,639
who
1747
01:28:32,079 --> 01:28:35,920
waiting and struggling in voiceless
1748
01:28:34,639 --> 01:28:41,119
agony
1749
01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:41,119
held uncomplaining guard over a world
1750
01:28:41,600 --> 01:28:45,600
there was no response to that human
1751
01:28:44,158 --> 01:28:46,879
yearning
1752
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:50,719
and so
1753
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:51,840
jesus turned forever away from earth to
1754
01:28:50,719 --> 01:28:56,198
heaven
1755
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:56,199
from sense to soul
1756
01:28:56,238 --> 01:29:01,919
remembering the sweat of agony which
1757
01:28:59,359 --> 01:29:05,198
fell in holy benediction
1758
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:08,399
on the grass of gethsemane
1759
01:29:05,198 --> 01:29:12,479
shall the humblest or mightiest disciple
1760
01:29:08,399 --> 01:29:13,679
murmur when he drinks from the same cup
1761
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:17,039
and think
1762
01:29:13,679 --> 01:29:22,880
or even wish to escape the exalting
1763
01:29:17,039 --> 01:29:22,880
ordeal of sins revenge on its destroyer
1764
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:28,880
truth and love
1765
01:29:25,119 --> 01:29:32,000
bestow few palms until the consummation
1766
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:32,000
of a life work
1767
01:29:32,479 --> 01:29:39,119
judas had the world's weapons
1768
01:29:36,158 --> 01:29:41,519
jesus had not one of them
1769
01:29:39,119 --> 01:29:43,760
and chose not the world's means of
1770
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:47,360
defense
1771
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:50,800
he opened not his mouth
1772
01:29:47,359 --> 01:29:56,079
the great demonstrator of truth and love
1773
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:56,079
was silent before envy and hate
1774
01:29:56,319 --> 01:30:01,198
peter would have smitten the enemies of
1775
01:29:59,279 --> 01:30:04,158
his master
1776
01:30:01,198 --> 01:30:07,839
but jesus forbad him
1777
01:30:04,158 --> 01:30:09,519
thus rebuking resentment or animal
1778
01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:11,360
courage
1779
01:30:09,520 --> 01:30:15,040
he said
1780
01:30:11,359 --> 01:30:15,039
put up thy sword
1781
01:30:16,158 --> 01:30:20,559
pale in the presence of his own
1782
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:22,880
momentous question
1783
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:26,000
what is truth
1784
01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:30,400
pilate was drawn into acquiescence with
1785
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:30,399
the demands of jesus enemies
1786
01:30:30,639 --> 01:30:36,719
pilate was ignorant of the consequences
1787
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:40,000
of his awful decision against human
1788
01:30:36,719 --> 01:30:42,880
rights and divine love
1789
01:30:40,000 --> 01:30:44,960
knowing not that he was hastening the
1790
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:47,119
final demonstration
1791
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:50,000
of what life is
1792
01:30:47,119 --> 01:30:53,439
and of what the true knowledge of god
1793
01:30:50,000 --> 01:30:53,439
can do for man
1794
01:30:54,319 --> 01:30:59,359
the women at the cross could have
1795
01:30:56,399 --> 01:31:01,759
answered pilate's question
1796
01:30:59,359 --> 01:31:03,279
they knew what had inspired their
1797
01:31:01,760 --> 01:31:05,280
devotion
1798
01:31:03,279 --> 01:31:08,960
winged their faith
1799
01:31:05,279 --> 01:31:10,719
opened the eyes of their understanding
1800
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:12,639
healed the sick
1801
01:31:10,719 --> 01:31:15,439
cast out evil
1802
01:31:12,639 --> 01:31:17,039
and caused the disciples to say to their
1803
01:31:15,439 --> 01:31:20,000
master
1804
01:31:17,039 --> 01:31:23,039
even the devils are subject unto us
1805
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:23,039
through thy name
1806
01:31:23,840 --> 01:31:28,159
where were the seventy whom jesus sent
1807
01:31:26,719 --> 01:31:30,480
forth
1808
01:31:28,158 --> 01:31:32,719
were all conspirators
1809
01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:35,519
save eleven
1810
01:31:32,719 --> 01:31:37,198
had they forgotten the great exponent of
1811
01:31:35,520 --> 01:31:40,159
god
1812
01:31:37,198 --> 01:31:41,759
had they so soon lost sight of his
1813
01:31:40,158 --> 01:31:44,719
mighty works
1814
01:31:41,760 --> 01:31:46,480
his toils probations
1815
01:31:44,719 --> 01:31:48,800
sacrifices
1816
01:31:46,479 --> 01:31:50,879
his divine patience
1817
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:54,800
sublime courage
1818
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:54,800
and unrequited affection
1819
01:31:55,119 --> 01:31:59,359
oh
1820
01:31:55,920 --> 01:32:00,480
why did they not gratify his last human
1821
01:31:59,359 --> 01:32:05,039
yearning
1822
01:32:00,479 --> 01:32:05,039
with one sign of fidelity
1823
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:13,039
the meek demonstrator of good
1824
01:32:09,198 --> 01:32:16,158
the highest instructor and friend of man
1825
01:32:13,039 --> 01:32:18,960
met his earthly fate alone
1826
01:32:16,158 --> 01:32:22,879
with god
1827
01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:24,840
no human eye was there to pity
1828
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:29,920
no arm to
1829
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:33,039
save forsaken by all whom he had blessed
1830
01:32:29,920 --> 01:32:36,319
this faithful sentinel of god
1831
01:32:33,039 --> 01:32:38,560
at the highest post of power
1832
01:32:36,319 --> 01:32:39,840
charged with the grandest trust of
1833
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:43,199
heaven
1834
01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:47,679
was ready to be transformed by the
1835
01:32:43,198 --> 01:32:47,678
renewing of the infinite spirit
1836
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:55,039
he was to prove that the christ is not
1837
01:32:51,359 --> 01:32:58,799
subject to material conditions
1838
01:32:55,039 --> 01:33:01,920
but is above the reach of human wrath
1839
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:04,400
and is able through truth
1840
01:33:01,920 --> 01:33:07,039
life and love
1841
01:33:04,399 --> 01:33:08,479
to triumph over sin
1842
01:33:07,039 --> 01:33:12,158
sickness
1843
01:33:08,479 --> 01:33:14,879
death and the grave
1844
01:33:12,158 --> 01:33:18,479
the priests and rabbis
1845
01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:20,880
before whom he had meekly walked
1846
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:24,479
and those to whom he had given the
1847
01:33:20,880 --> 01:33:27,039
highest proofs of divine power
1848
01:33:24,479 --> 01:33:28,879
mocked him on the cross saying
1849
01:33:27,039 --> 01:33:31,039
derisively
1850
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:35,039
he saved others
1851
01:33:31,039 --> 01:33:35,039
himself he cannot save
1852
01:33:35,279 --> 01:33:40,399
these scoffers
1853
01:33:37,359 --> 01:33:43,679
who turned aside the right of a man
1854
01:33:40,399 --> 01:33:47,198
before the face of the most high
1855
01:33:43,679 --> 01:33:48,840
esteemed jesus as stricken
1856
01:33:47,198 --> 01:33:52,158
smitten of
1857
01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:53,679
god he is brought as a lamb to the
1858
01:33:52,158 --> 01:33:56,719
slaughter
1859
01:33:53,679 --> 01:33:58,158
and as a sheep before her shearers is
1860
01:33:56,719 --> 01:34:02,319
dumb
1861
01:33:58,158 --> 01:34:06,158
so he openeth not his mouth
1862
01:34:02,319 --> 01:34:11,679
who shall declare his generation
1863
01:34:06,158 --> 01:34:11,679
who shall decide what truth and love are
1864
01:34:12,238 --> 01:34:17,198
the last supreme moment of mockery
1865
01:34:15,760 --> 01:34:18,880
desertion
1866
01:34:17,198 --> 01:34:21,599
torture
1867
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:24,400
added to an overwhelming sense of the
1868
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:28,800
magnitude of his work
1869
01:34:24,399 --> 01:34:30,479
run from jesus lips the awful cry
1870
01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:34,560
my god
1871
01:34:30,479 --> 01:34:34,559
why hast thou forsaken me
1872
01:34:35,119 --> 01:34:40,319
this despairing appeal
1873
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:43,440
if made to a human parent
1874
01:34:40,319 --> 01:34:46,639
would impugn the justice and love of a
1875
01:34:43,439 --> 01:34:48,319
father who could withhold a clear token
1876
01:34:46,639 --> 01:34:53,920
of his presence
1877
01:34:48,319 --> 01:34:53,920
to sustain and bless so faithful a son
1878
01:34:54,000 --> 01:35:00,238
the appeal of jesus
1879
01:34:56,319 --> 01:35:02,960
was made both to his divine principle
1880
01:35:00,238 --> 01:35:05,198
the god who is love
1881
01:35:02,960 --> 01:35:08,960
and to himself
1882
01:35:05,198 --> 01:35:08,960
loves pure idea
1883
01:35:09,118 --> 01:35:17,519
had life truth and love forsaken him in
1884
01:35:14,158 --> 01:35:21,198
his highest demonstration
1885
01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:22,880
this was a startling question
1886
01:35:21,198 --> 01:35:27,198
no
1887
01:35:22,880 --> 01:35:29,760
they must abide in him and he in them
1888
01:35:27,198 --> 01:35:34,399
or that hour would be shorn of its
1889
01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:34,400
mighty blessing for the human race
1890
01:35:35,118 --> 01:35:42,158
if his full recognition of eternal life
1891
01:35:39,039 --> 01:35:45,519
had for a moment given way before the
1892
01:35:42,158 --> 01:35:49,359
evidence of the bodily senses
1893
01:35:45,520 --> 01:35:52,480
what would his accusers have said
1894
01:35:49,359 --> 01:35:56,399
even what they did say
1895
01:35:52,479 --> 01:35:59,359
that jesus teachings were false and that
1896
01:35:56,399 --> 01:36:03,439
all evidence of their correctness was
1897
01:35:59,359 --> 01:36:03,439
destroyed by his death
1898
01:36:03,600 --> 01:36:08,560
but this saying could not make it so
1899
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:15,520
the burden of that hour was terrible
1900
01:36:12,079 --> 01:36:18,840
beyond human conception
1901
01:36:15,520 --> 01:36:22,560
the distrust of mortal minds
1902
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:25,520
disbelieving the purpose of his mission
1903
01:36:22,560 --> 01:36:29,600
was a million times sharper than the
1904
01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:29,600
thorns which pierced his flesh
1905
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:35,279
the real cross which jesus bore up the
1906
01:36:33,198 --> 01:36:40,319
hill of grief
1907
01:36:35,279 --> 01:36:44,399
was the world's hatred of truth and love
1908
01:36:40,319 --> 01:36:46,960
not the spear nor the material cross
1909
01:36:44,399 --> 01:36:48,799
rung from his faithful lips the
1910
01:36:46,960 --> 01:36:52,560
plaintive cry
1911
01:36:48,800 --> 01:36:52,560
eloe eloi
1912
01:36:55,359 --> 01:37:00,799
it was the possible loss of something
1913
01:36:57,840 --> 01:37:02,560
more important than human life which
1914
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:05,440
moved him
1915
01:37:02,560 --> 01:37:10,239
the possible misapprehension
1916
01:37:05,439 --> 01:37:11,839
of the sublimest influence of his career
1917
01:37:10,238 --> 01:37:16,559
this dread
1918
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:16,560
added the drop of gaul to his cup
1919
01:37:17,359 --> 01:37:22,319
jesus could have withdrawn himself from
1920
01:37:20,238 --> 01:37:25,359
his enemies
1921
01:37:22,319 --> 01:37:26,479
he had power to lay down a human sense
1922
01:37:25,359 --> 01:37:29,359
of life
1923
01:37:26,479 --> 01:37:33,118
for his spiritual identity
1924
01:37:29,359 --> 01:37:35,839
in the likeness of the divine
1925
01:37:33,118 --> 01:37:38,799
but he allowed men to attempt the
1926
01:37:35,840 --> 01:37:41,920
destruction of the mortal body
1927
01:37:38,800 --> 01:37:45,360
in order that he might furnish the proof
1928
01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:45,359
of immortal life
1929
01:37:45,760 --> 01:37:53,520
nothing could kill this life of man
1930
01:37:50,158 --> 01:37:55,679
jesus could give his temporal life into
1931
01:37:53,520 --> 01:37:57,679
his enemies hands
1932
01:37:55,679 --> 01:37:59,118
but when his earth mission was
1933
01:37:57,679 --> 01:38:01,960
accomplished
1934
01:37:59,118 --> 01:38:04,799
his spiritual life
1935
01:38:01,960 --> 01:38:08,960
indestructible and eternal
1936
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:10,159
was found forever the same
1937
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:12,960
he knew
1938
01:38:10,158 --> 01:38:16,960
that matter had no life
1939
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:19,920
and that real life is god
1940
01:38:16,960 --> 01:38:22,319
therefore he could no more be separated
1941
01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:26,800
from his spiritual life
1942
01:38:22,319 --> 01:38:26,799
than god could be extinguished
1943
01:38:27,439 --> 01:38:33,599
his consummate example was for the
1944
01:38:30,639 --> 01:38:36,319
salvation of us all
1945
01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:37,440
but only through doing the works which
1946
01:38:36,319 --> 01:38:40,880
he did
1947
01:38:37,439 --> 01:38:43,359
and taught others to do
1948
01:38:40,880 --> 01:38:46,960
his purpose in healing
1949
01:38:43,359 --> 01:38:51,920
was not alone to restore health
1950
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:51,920
but to demonstrate his divine principle
1951
01:38:52,079 --> 01:38:57,439
he was inspired by god
1952
01:38:55,118 --> 01:39:01,599
by truth and love
1953
01:38:57,439 --> 01:39:04,559
in all that he said and did
1954
01:39:01,600 --> 01:39:05,920
the motives of his persecutors were
1955
01:39:04,560 --> 01:39:07,119
pride
1956
01:39:05,920 --> 01:39:10,079
envy
1957
01:39:07,118 --> 01:39:13,439
cruelty and vengeance
1958
01:39:10,079 --> 01:39:17,760
inflicted on the physical jesus
1959
01:39:13,439 --> 01:39:22,118
but aimed at the divine principle love
1960
01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:22,119
which rebuked their sensuality
1961
01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:28,800
jesus was unselfish
1962
01:39:25,600 --> 01:39:30,880
his spirituality separated him from
1963
01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:34,159
sensuousness
1964
01:39:30,880 --> 01:39:36,239
and caused the selfish materialist to
1965
01:39:34,158 --> 01:39:37,719
hate him
1966
01:39:36,238 --> 01:39:41,519
but it was this
1967
01:39:37,719 --> 01:39:42,960
spirituality which enabled jesus to heal
1968
01:39:41,520 --> 01:39:45,119
the sick
1969
01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:48,480
cast out evil
1970
01:39:45,118 --> 01:39:48,479
and raised the dead
1971
01:39:50,800 --> 01:39:55,600
from early boyhood he was about his
1972
01:39:53,439 --> 01:39:59,678
father's business
1973
01:39:55,600 --> 01:40:02,560
his pursuits lay far apart from theirs
1974
01:39:59,679 --> 01:40:05,600
his master was spirit
1975
01:40:02,560 --> 01:40:08,080
their master was matter
1976
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:10,960
he served god
1977
01:40:08,079 --> 01:40:13,840
they served mammon
1978
01:40:10,960 --> 01:40:17,039
his affections were pure
1979
01:40:13,840 --> 01:40:19,920
theirs were carnal
1980
01:40:17,039 --> 01:40:25,279
his senses drank in the spiritual
1981
01:40:19,920 --> 01:40:28,719
evidence of health holiness and life
1982
01:40:25,279 --> 01:40:31,759
their senses testified oppositely
1983
01:40:28,719 --> 01:40:32,880
and absorbed the material evidence of
1984
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:34,079
sin
1985
01:40:32,880 --> 01:40:36,880
sickness
1986
01:40:34,079 --> 01:40:40,399
and death
1987
01:40:36,880 --> 01:40:43,600
their imperfections and impurity
1988
01:40:40,399 --> 01:40:44,879
felt the ever-present rebuke of his
1989
01:40:43,600 --> 01:40:47,280
perfection
1990
01:40:44,880 --> 01:40:50,880
and purity
1991
01:40:47,279 --> 01:40:53,118
hence the world's hatred of the just and
1992
01:40:50,880 --> 01:40:55,199
perfect jesus
1993
01:40:53,118 --> 01:40:59,519
and the prophet's foresight of the
1994
01:40:55,198 --> 01:41:02,960
reception error would give him
1995
01:40:59,520 --> 01:41:06,320
despised and rejected of men was
1996
01:41:02,960 --> 01:41:09,760
isaiah's graphic word concerning the
1997
01:41:06,319 --> 01:41:11,840
coming prince of peace
1998
01:41:09,760 --> 01:41:15,920
herod and pilate
1999
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:19,119
laid aside old feuds in order to unite
2000
01:41:15,920 --> 01:41:24,000
in putting to shame and death
2001
01:41:19,118 --> 01:41:25,039
the best man that ever trod the globe
2002
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:26,880
today
2003
01:41:25,039 --> 01:41:31,920
as of old
2004
01:41:26,880 --> 01:41:36,319
error and evil again make common cause
2005
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:36,319
against the exponents of truth
2006
01:41:36,560 --> 01:41:42,719
the man of sorrows best understood the
2007
01:41:40,079 --> 01:41:44,319
nothingness of material life and
2008
01:41:42,719 --> 01:41:46,880
intelligence
2009
01:41:44,319 --> 01:41:49,679
and the mighty actuality
2010
01:41:46,880 --> 01:41:51,840
of all-inclusive god
2011
01:41:49,679 --> 01:41:54,719
good
2012
01:41:51,840 --> 01:41:56,400
these were the two cardinal points of
2013
01:41:54,719 --> 01:41:58,560
mind healing
2014
01:41:56,399 --> 01:42:02,319
or christian science
2015
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:02,320
which armed him with love
2016
01:42:02,399 --> 01:42:06,638
the highest earthly representative of
2017
01:42:05,198 --> 01:42:10,158
god
2018
01:42:06,639 --> 01:42:12,239
speaking of human ability to reflect
2019
01:42:10,158 --> 01:42:15,679
divine power
2020
01:42:12,238 --> 01:42:18,879
prophetically said to his disciples
2021
01:42:15,679 --> 01:42:21,039
speaking not for their day only but for
2022
01:42:18,880 --> 01:42:23,600
all time
2023
01:42:21,039 --> 01:42:29,840
he that believeth on me
2024
01:42:23,600 --> 01:42:32,560
the works that i do shall he do also and
2025
01:42:29,840 --> 01:42:35,199
these signs shall follow them that
2026
01:42:32,560 --> 01:42:35,199
believe
2027
01:42:35,279 --> 01:42:39,319
the accusations of the pharisees
2028
01:42:38,319 --> 01:42:43,198
were as
2029
01:42:39,319 --> 01:42:44,479
self-contradictory as their religion
2030
01:42:43,198 --> 01:42:46,079
the bigot
2031
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:47,759
the debauchee
2032
01:42:46,079 --> 01:42:50,238
the hypocrite
2033
01:42:47,760 --> 01:42:53,119
called jesus a glutton
2034
01:42:50,238 --> 01:42:54,399
and a wine bibber
2035
01:42:53,118 --> 01:42:58,238
they said
2036
01:42:54,399 --> 01:43:00,719
he cast out devils through beelzebub
2037
01:42:58,238 --> 01:43:02,959
and is the friend of publicans and
2038
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sinners
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the latter accusation was true
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but not in their meaning
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jesus was no ascetic
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he did not fast as did the baptist's
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disciples
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yet there never lived a man so far
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removed from appetites and passions
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as the nazarene
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he rebuked sinners pointedly and
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unflinchingly
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because he was their friend
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hence the cup he drank
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the reputation of jesus was the very
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opposite of his character
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why
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because the divine principle and
2055
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practice of jesus were misunderstood
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he was at work in divine science
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his words and works were unknown to the
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world
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because above and contrary to the
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world's religious sense
2061
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mortals believed in god as humanly
2062
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mighty
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rather than as divine
2064
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infinite love
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the world could not interpret or write
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the discomfort which jesus inspired
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and the spiritual blessings which might
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flow from such discomfort
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science shows the cause of the shock so
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often produced by the truth
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namely
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that this shock arises from the great
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distance between the individual and
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truth
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like peter
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we should weep over the warning instead
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of denying the truth
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or mocking the lifelong sacrifice which
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goodness makes for the destruction of
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evil
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jesus bore our sins in his body
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he knew the mortal errors which
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constitute the material body
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and could destroy those errors
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but at the time when jesus felt our
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infirmities
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he had not conquered all the beliefs of
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the flesh
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or his sense of material life
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nor had he risen to his final
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demonstration of spiritual power
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had he shared the sinful beliefs of
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others
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he would have been less sensitive to
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those beliefs
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through the magnitude of his human life
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01:46:02,639 --> 01:46:09,920
he demonstrated the divine life
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out of the amplitude of his pure
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affection
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he defined love
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with the affluence of truth
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he vanquished error
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the world acknowledged not his
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righteousness
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seeing it not
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but earth received the harmony his
2107
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glorified example introduced
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who is ready to follow his teaching and
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example
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all must sooner or later plant
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themselves in christ
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the true idea of god
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that he might liberally pour his dearbot
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treasures into empty or sin-filled human
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storehouses
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was the inspiration of jesus intense
2117
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human sacrifice
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in witness of his divine commission
2119
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he presented the proof
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that life
2121
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truth and love heal the sick and the
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sinning
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and triumph over death through mind not
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matter
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this was the highest proof he could have
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01:47:28,319 --> 01:47:35,840
offered of divine love
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his hearers understood neither his words
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nor his works
2129
01:47:38,560 --> 01:47:43,360
they would not accept his meek
2130
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interpretation of life
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nor follow his example
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his earthly cup of bitterness was
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drained to the dregs
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01:47:53,760 --> 01:47:59,360
there adhered to him only a few
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01:47:57,118 --> 01:48:02,158
unpretentious friends
2136
01:47:59,359 --> 01:48:04,479
whose religion was something more than a
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name
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it was so vital
2139
01:48:06,639 --> 01:48:10,960
that it enabled them to understand the
2140
01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:16,158
nazarene
2141
01:48:10,960 --> 01:48:19,359
and to share the glory of eternal life
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01:48:16,158 --> 01:48:22,238
he said that those who followed him
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should drink of his cup
2144
01:48:22,238 --> 01:48:27,198
and history has confirmed the prediction
2145
01:48:27,679 --> 01:48:34,399
if that god-like and glorified man were
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01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:36,000
physically on earth today
2147
01:48:34,399 --> 01:48:38,719
would not some
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01:48:36,000 --> 01:48:41,118
who now profess to love him
2149
01:48:38,719 --> 01:48:43,840
reject him
2150
01:48:41,118 --> 01:48:45,439
would they not deny him even the rights
2151
01:48:43,840 --> 01:48:48,159
of humanity
2152
01:48:45,439 --> 01:48:52,960
if he entertained any other sense of
2153
01:48:48,158 --> 01:48:52,960
being and religion than theirs
2154
01:48:53,600 --> 01:48:59,039
the advancing century
2155
01:48:56,158 --> 01:49:03,118
from a deadened sense of the invisible
2156
01:48:59,039 --> 01:49:05,439
god today subjects to unchristian
2157
01:49:03,118 --> 01:49:09,039
comment and usage
2158
01:49:05,439 --> 01:49:11,279
the idea of christian healing enjoined
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01:49:09,039 --> 01:49:14,560
by jesus
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01:49:11,279 --> 01:49:17,039
but this does not affect the invincible
2161
01:49:14,560 --> 01:49:20,080
facts
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01:49:17,039 --> 01:49:23,118
perhaps the early christian era did
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01:49:20,079 --> 01:49:25,760
jesus no more injustice
2164
01:49:23,118 --> 01:49:29,359
than the later centuries have bestowed
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01:49:25,760 --> 01:49:32,880
upon the healing christ and spiritual
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01:49:29,359 --> 01:49:36,399
idea of being
2167
01:49:32,880 --> 01:49:39,440
now that the gospel of healing is again
2168
01:49:36,399 --> 01:49:44,559
preached by the wayside
2169
01:49:39,439 --> 01:49:47,198
does not the pulpit sometimes scorn it
2170
01:49:44,560 --> 01:49:50,159
but that curative mission
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01:49:47,198 --> 01:49:54,479
which presents the savior in a clearer
2172
01:49:50,158 --> 01:49:58,638
light than mere words can possibly do
2173
01:49:54,479 --> 01:50:01,839
cannot be left out of christianity
2174
01:49:58,639 --> 01:50:04,639
although it is again ruled out of the
2175
01:50:01,840 --> 01:50:04,639
synagogue
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01:50:05,198 --> 01:50:11,118
truth's immortal idea is sweeping down
2177
01:50:09,198 --> 01:50:14,638
the centuries
2178
01:50:11,118 --> 01:50:16,880
gathering beneath its wings the sick and
2179
01:50:14,639 --> 01:50:20,480
sinning
2180
01:50:16,880 --> 01:50:22,159
my weary hope tries to realize that
2181
01:50:20,479 --> 01:50:25,359
happy day
2182
01:50:22,158 --> 01:50:26,719
when man shall recognize the science of
2183
01:50:25,359 --> 01:50:30,719
christ
2184
01:50:26,719 --> 01:50:34,719
and love his neighbor as himself
2185
01:50:30,719 --> 01:50:38,560
when he shall realize god's omnipotence
2186
01:50:34,719 --> 01:50:40,639
and the healing power of the divine love
2187
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:45,280
in what it has done
2188
01:50:40,639 --> 01:50:45,279
and is doing for mankind
2189
01:50:45,520 --> 01:50:51,840
the promises will be fulfilled
2190
01:50:49,359 --> 01:50:53,598
the time for the reappearing of the
2191
01:50:51,840 --> 01:50:56,560
divine healing
2192
01:50:53,599 --> 01:51:00,159
is throughout all time
2193
01:50:56,560 --> 01:51:03,199
and whosoever layeth his earthly all on
2194
01:51:00,158 --> 01:51:06,879
the altar of divine science
2195
01:51:03,198 --> 01:51:11,039
drinketh of christ's cup now
2196
01:51:06,880 --> 01:51:14,480
and is endued with the spirit and power
2197
01:51:11,039 --> 01:51:14,479
of christian healing
2198
01:51:14,960 --> 01:51:18,079
in the words of saint john
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[Music]
2200
01:51:18,079 --> 01:51:25,760
he shall give you another comforter
2201
01:51:21,198 --> 01:51:27,519
that he may abide with you forever
2202
01:51:25,760 --> 01:51:33,320
this comforter
2203
01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:33,320
i understand to be divine science
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01:51:38,079 --> 01:51:40,158
you
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