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Rh longer called Jacob, but Israel, — a Prince of God, or a Soldier of God, who had fought a good fight. He was to become the father of those who followed his spiritual demonstration of Christian striving; and the children of earth who followed his example should be called the Children of Israel. If these children should go astray, and forget the spiritual foundation of God's people, and thus lose the divine power that heals the sick and sinning, they must be brought back through great tribulation, and led to deny this material sense, and become spiritually-minded.

Jesus' spiritual origin and understanding enabled him to demonstrate the facts of being; to prove, above all other teachers, how spiritual Truth destroys material error, heals the sick, and overcomes death. The birth of Jesus pointed to this Truth, and presented the example of creation. Jesus illustrated, more than any other man, the ideal of Spirit, inasmuch as he was more spiritual than all other earthly impersonations combined. He walked the waves, multiplied the loaves and fishes, healed the sick, and raised the dead, all on the divine platform — that God, Spirit, is supreme, and that there is no other power than Mind.

Having in part a personal origin, conceived by a human mother, Jesus was the mediator between Spirit and what is termed matter, between Truth and error. Explaining and demonstrating the way of Divine Science, he became the way of salvation to all who accepted his word, that mortals might learn of him and escape from evil. Man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and be His. Jesus took upon himself flesh, to prove the power of Spirit over the