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Rh followers: “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you;” “Lo, I am with you always,” — that is, not only in all time, but in all ways, or conditions.

The individuality of our blaster was no less tangible because it was spiritual, and because his Life was not at the mercy of matter. This understanding made him more real, more formidable in Truth, and enabled him to triumph over death, and present himself to his disciples, after his resurrection from the grave, as the self-same Jesus whom they had loved before the tragedy on Calvary.

To the materialistic Thomas, looking for the ideal Saviour in matter instead of in Spirit, and to the

evidence of the senses and the body, more than to Soul, for an earnest of immortality, — to him Jesus furnished the proof that he was unchanged by the crucifixion. To this dull and doubting disciple Jesus therefore remained a fleshly reality, so long as he remained an inhabitant of the earth. Nothing but a display of matter could make existence real to Thomas. For him to believe in matter was no task; but for him to conceive of the substantiality of Spirit — to know that nothing can rule out Mind and Immortality, wherein Spirit reigns — was more difficult.

Corporeal senses define diseases as realities; but the Scriptures declare that Mind makes all, even while

these senses are saying that matter causes disease, and immortal Mind cannot heal it. Mortal sense supports all that is untrue, selfish, or debased. It would put soul into soil, life into limbo, and doom all things to decay. We must put to