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Rh understand the Nazarene, and share the glory of his Life. His earthly cup of bitterness was drained to the dregs. He said that those who followed him should drink of his cup, and history confirms the prediction.

If that divinely glorified man was personally on earth to-day, it is very possible that those who now profess to love him would reject him. They would even deny him the rights of personality, if he entertained any other than their sense of personality. Even the enlightened Nineteenth Century subjects the idea of Christian healing, enjoined by Jesus, to unchristian comment and usage.

Perhaps the early Christian era did Jesus no more personal injustice than the advancing centuries bestow upon the ideal Christ. When the gospel of healing is again preached by the wayside, will the pulpit scorn the message? Shall that curative mission, which presents the Saviour in a clearer light than mere words can possibly do, be ruled out of the synagogue?

Christ's immortal ideal is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath his wings the sick and sinning. In vain I stretch my weary hope, to realize that happy day when all shall know his appearing, and love their neighbors as themselves, recognizing the healing power of Divine Love in what it has done and can do for mankind. The promises will be fulfilled. The reappearing of this divine idea of healing is at hand. Whosoever lays his earthly all on the altar of Christian Science shall drink of Christ's cup and be baptized with his baptism.

Then shall Christianity again demonstrate the Life that is Truth, and the Truth that is Life, by the apostolic work of casting out error and healing the sick. Earth has no reward for the persecution that attends a new