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296 To understand all our Master's sayings, as recorded in the New Testament, sayings infinitely important, his

followers must grow into that stature of manhood in Christ Jesus which enables them to interpret his spiritual meaning. Then would they know how Truth casts out error and heals the sick. His words were the offspring of his deeds, both of which must be understood. Unless the works are comprehended which his words explained, the words are blind.

The Master often refused to explain his words, because it is difficult for a material age to apprehend spiritual Truth. He said: “This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.”

“The Word was made flesh.” Divine Truth and Love must be seen and felt by mortals, before the

Science which declares them could be demonstrated. Hence their embodiment in the blessed Jesus, — that Life-link, forming the connection through which the Real reaches the unreal. Soul rebukes sense, and Truth destroys error.

In Jewish worship the Word was materially explained, and the spiritual sense was unperceived. The religion

which sprang from half-hidden Israelitish history was pedantic, and void of healing power. When we lose faith in God's power to heal, we distrust the Principle which demonstrates Christian Science, and then we cannot heal the sick. Neither can we heal through the help of Spirit, if we plant ourselves in a material soil.