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Rh good and faithful servant,” convey a sense of immortal honors.

Our Master fully and finally demonstrated Divine Science, for the enlightenment and salvation of the whole world. Three days after his bodily burial he talked with his disciples. The persecutors failed to hide immortal Truth and Love in a sepulchre.

In the walk to Emmaus, Jesus was known to his friends in the words which made their hearts burn within them, and in the breaking of bread. The Spirit which identified Jesus thus, over eighteen centuries ago, has since spoken to us in the inspired Word. It is revealed to the heart. It is again seen, casting out error and healing the sick.

Those who saw him after the resurrection, and beheld the final proof of all Jesus had taught, misconstrued that event. His disciples called him a personal spirit, ghost, or spectre, for they believed his body to be dead. His reply was, “Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”

The sacred precincts of the tomb gave Jesus refuge from his foes, long enough to solve the great problem of being. His three days' work in the sepulchre set the seal of eternity on time. He proved Life to be deathless, and Love to be the master of hate. He met and settled all the claims of medicine, surgery, and hygiene with the power of Mind, and mastered them on this basis.

He took no drugs to allay inflammation. He did not depend upon food or pure air to resuscitate his wasted energies. He did not require the skill of a surgeon to heal the torn palms, and bind up his wounded side and lacerated feet, in order that he might use those hands