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506 Christians, are you drinking his cup? Have you shared the blood of the New Covenant, the sufferings and persecutions that attend a new and higher understanding of God? If not, can you then say that you have commemorated Jesus in his cup?

When the human in him struggled with the divine, our great leader said, “Not my will but Thine be done.” What he meant was this: “Let not the flesh, but the Spirit, be represented in me.” This is the new understanding of impersonal Love. It gives all for Christ, or Truth. It blesses its enemies, heals the sick, casts out error, raises the dead from trespasses and sins, and preaches the gospel to the poor.

Rabbi and priest taught the Mosaic law, which said: “An eye for an eye,” and, “Whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” Not so did Jesus, the new executor of Cod, present the divine law of Love, which blesses even those who curse it.

First, on the list of Christian duties, he taught his followers the healing power of Truth. He attached no importance to dead ceremonies. It is the living Christ, the practical Truth, which makes him the Resurrection and the Life, to all who follow him in deed. Obeying his precious precepts, — following his demonstration, so far as we apprehend it, — we drink of his cup, partake of his deathless body, and are baptized with his purity; and at last we shall sit down with him, in a full understanding of the Divine Principle which was his real Life. For what says Paul: “As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show forth the Lord's death till he come.” Belief can never do the works of understanding, never