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336 taught. In meekness and might, he was found preaching the Gospel to the poor. Pride and fear are unfit to bear the standard of Truth, and God will never place it in such hands.

Jesus acknowledged no ties of the flesh. He said: “Call no man your father upon the earth; for one is

your Father, who is in Heaven.” Again he asked: “Who is my mother, and who are my brethren, but they who do the will of my Father?” We have no record of his calling any man by the name of father. He recognized Spirit as the only Creator, and therefore as the Father of all.

First, in the list of Christian duties, he taught his followers the healing power of Truth and Love. 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 immortality, 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 true 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.”

Referring to the materiality of the age, Jesus said: “The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers

shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth.” Again, foreseeing the persecution which would attend the Science of Spirit, Jesus said: “They shall put you out of the synagogues; yea, the