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Rh procured the martyrdom of that righteous man turned his sacred career into a doctrinal platform. Let Christians of this century learn the more practical import of that career.

Christ's students, not sufficiently advanced to fully understand their Master's triumph, did not perform many wonderful works until they saw him after his crucifixion, and learned that he had not died. This convinced them of the truthfulness of all he had taught.

In his next demonstration he went altogether beyond their personal knowledge, and rose out of human sight. The biographer calls this event the Ascension; and with it the earthly record of Jesus closes.

His students received the Holy Ghost. By all they had witnessed and suffered they were roused to a quickened sense of Divine Science, to the spiritual interpretation and discernment of his teachings, to a faint conception of the Life that is God. They no longer measured man by personal sense. After gaining a true sense of their glorified Saviour, they became better healers, leaning no longer on a person, but on the Divine Principle of their work. The influx of light was sudden. It was sometimes an overwhelming power, as on the Day of Pentecost.

Jesus and his students gave the divine demonstration of Mind-healing. The malpractice or misinterpretation of Christian Mind-healing, in sickness or sin, is imposition.

The reappearing of Jesus was not the return of a spectre. He presented the same body that he had before his crucifixion, and so glorified the supremacy of Mind.

Our Heavenly Father, the Divine Principle of that demonstration, demands that we do as Jesus did, and