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270 great distance between the individual and Truth. Like Peter, we should weep over the warning, and no longer ignorantly deny the Truth, or mock the lifelong sacrifice that goodness makes for evil.

Jesus bore our sins in his own person. He knew all the mortal error that constitutes the material body, and could destroy that error; but at the time when Jesus felt our infirmities he had not conquered the belief in material life, nor had he risen to his final demonstration of spiritual power.

Had he shared the sensuous beliefs of others he would not have suffered from those beliefs. Through the magnitude of his human life he demonstrated the Divine Life. Out of the amplitude of his love he defined Love. With the affluence of Truth he vanquished error. The world acknowledged not his righteousness, seeing it not; but earth needed the harmony his glorified example introduced, and the blessings he brought.

Who is ready to follow his teaching and example? Yet all must plant their feet in Christ sooner or later.

That he might liberally pour his dear-bought treasures into empty human storehouses, was the purpose of Jesus' great suffering and intense experience. He presented the proof that Truth and Love can heal the sick, and that mentally; and this was the highest proof he could offer. His hearers neither understood his words nor his works. They would not accept his meek interpretation of Life, nor follow his practice. They called him “a pestilent fellow,” “a stirrer-up of seditions.” There adhered to him only a few unpretentious friends, whose religion was something more than a name.

Their religion was so vital that it enabled them to