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332 of Life and Love. Jesus sent a message to John the Baptist, which was intended to prove beyond a question that the Christ had come: “Go and tell him the things ye see and hear; how the sick are healed, the lame walk, the deaf hear, the blind see, and to the poor the Gospel is preached.” In other words: “Tell John what the demonstration of power is, and he will at once perceive that God is the Principle in the Messianic work.”

That Life is God, Jesus demonstrated by his reappearance after the crucifixion, in accordance with his

Scientific statement: “Though you destroy this temple [body], yet will I [Spirit] build it again.” It is as if he had said: The I — the Life, Substance, and Intelligence of the universe — is not in matter, to be destroyed.

Jesus' parables explain Life as never mingling with sin and death. He laid the axe of Science at the root

of material knowledge, that it might be ready to cut down the false doctrine of Pantheism, — that God, or Life, is in or of matter.

Jesus sent forth seventy students at one time, but only eleven left a desirable historic record. Tradition credits

him with two or three hundred other disciples who have left no name. “Many are called, but few are chosen.” They fell away from grace because they never truly understood their Master's instruction.

Why do those who profess to follow Christ reject the essential religion he came to establish? His persecutors made their strongest attack upon this very point, endeavoring to hold him at the mercy of matter, and kill him according to certain assumed laws.