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Rh to read the human mind after this manner, and discern the error you would destroy. The Samaritan woman said: “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did! Is not this the Christ?”

It is recorded that Jesus, as he once journeyed with his students, “knew their thoughts,” — discerned them spiritually. In like manner he read disease and healed the sick. After the same method, events of great moment were foretold by the Hebrew Prophets. Our Master rebuked the lack of this power when he said: “Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

The Jews had acute corporeal senses, but they were wanting in spiritual sense. Jesus knew the generation to be wicked and adulterous, seeking the material and hating the spiritual. His thrusts at materialism were sharp, but needful. He never spared hypocrisy the sternest condemnation. He said: “These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone.” The great Teacher of Christian Science knew both cause and effect, knew that Truth communicates itself, but never imparts error.

Jesus once asked, “Who hath touched me?” Supposing this inquiry to be occasioned by physical contact

alone, his disciples answered, “The people throng thee.” Jesus knew, as others did not, that it was not matter, but mortal mind, whose touch called for aid. Repeating his inquiry, he was answered by the faith of a sick woman. His quick apprehension of this mental call illustrated his spirituality. The disciples' misconception of it betrayed their materiality.