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288 not merely that we worship his personality. Beyond the false premise of mediumship, above the grasp of creeds, the divine demonstration of Mind-healing stands as a revealed and practical reality, imperative throughout all ages — a method for every man to understand and practise.

The Man of Sorrows best understood the nothingness of material life and intelligence, and the mighty actuality of all-inclusive Mind. These are the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or Christian Science. The highest earthly representative of God, speaking of human ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his disciples, “The works that I do, shall ye do also.”

Herod and Pilate laid aside old feuds to unite in putting to shame and death the best man that ever trod the globe. To-day, as of old, error and evil make common cause against the leading exponent of Truth.

The accusations of the Pharisees were as self-contradictory as their religion. The bigot, the debauchee, the hypocrite, called Jesus a glutton and a wine-bibber. They said, “He casteth out devils through Beelzebub,” and is the “friend of sinners.” The latter accusation was true, but not in their meaning. So too Jesus was no ascetic. He did not fast, as did the Baptist's disciples. Yet there never lived a man so far removed from appetites and passions as the Nazarene. If he rebuked sinners pointedly and unflinchingly, it is because he was their friend.

The reputation of Jesus was the very opposite of his character. Why? Because neither the Principle nor practice of Jesus was understood. He was at work in the Science of God. His words and works were unknown