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504 our words. We cannot choose for ourselves, but must work out our own salvation in the way that Jesus taught and demonstrated. In meekness and might he was found preaching the gospel to the poor. A moral coward is unfit to hear the standard of Truth, and God will never place it in his hands.

A member of the Methodist Church said to me: “I hope, when you prepare your work on Christian Science, you will dwell much on the atonement.” If, after reading these pages, the “arm of the Lord is revealed” to her mind, she will “believe our report,” and commence her own work, and pursue it with the unction of primitive Christianity, — healing herself and others. This is regeneration; this is having part in the atonement; this is understanding wherefore Jesus suffered and triumphed.

If all who have ever partaken of the sacrament had really commemorated the sufferings of Jesus, and drank of his cup, they would have revolutionized the world. If all who seek his commemoration through material symbols will take up the cross, heal the sick, cast out error, and preach Christ, or Truth, to the poor, they will speedily establish the millennium.

Are all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of Jesus willing to take his cross, and leave all for the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspiration to a dead rite, instead of showing forth, in the body, that Truth has come to the understanding, by casting out error, healing the sick, and making the body “holy and acceptable?” If Christ, Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no commemoration is requisite, for he is Emmanuel, or “God with us;” and if a friend be with us, why need we memorials of that friend?