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308 betrayal, sat eating the manna, that before had fed the persecuted followers of Truth in the wilderness. Their bread came down from heaven; it was the great Truth of spiritualized being, that often had healed the sick, and cast out error; their Master had broken, explained it to them before, and now it was feeding, sustaining them; they also had borne it from house to house, “breaking,” explaining it to others; and now it comforted them. For this Truth their Master was about to suffer violence, and his cup of sorrow he must leave to them; he had drank it even with thanks, after a momentary weakness that said, “Let this cup pass from me,” and now remembering also the cross and crown it bore, he said to his followers, “Drink ye all of it.” Professors of Christ, are you drinking this cup? has the blood of the New Testament, the sufferings and persecutions that attend a new understanding of God, been shared by you? have you drank this cup? if not, have you commemorated Jesus in his “cup?” When the human struggled with the divine, our great exemplar said, “Not my will but thine be done”; not personal sense, but Soul be represented by me. This new understanding of the Love that is impersonal, gives up all for Christ, Truth, blesses them that curse it, heals the sick, casts out error, raises those dead in belief, and preaches to the poor.

The rabbi and priest taught a material law, and it was “An eye for an eye,” and “whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed”; not so did Jesus, the new testator of God, copy his will; his law was Love, and “Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend,” but he did this for his