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344 Meekly our Master met the mockery of his unrecognized grandeur. Such indignities as he received, his followers must endure, until Christianity triumph. He won eternal honors. He overcame the world, the flesh, and all error, thus proving their nothingness. He wrought a full salvation from sin, sickness, and death. We need “Christ, and him crucified.” We must have trials and self-denials, as well as joys and victories, until all error is destroyed.

The suicidal belief that Soul is in the body regards death as a friend, as a stepping-stone to immortality and

bliss. The Bible calls death an enemy; and Jesus overcame death as an enemy, instead of yielding to it. He was the Way. To him, therefore, death was not the threshold over which he must pass into living glory.

“Now,” cried the apostle, “is the accepted time, behold now is the day of salvation,” — meaning, not that

now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation, in Spirit and Life. Now is the time for so-called material pains and material pleasures to pass away; for both are unreal, because impossible in Science. To break this earthly spell, mortals must get the true idea and divine Principle of all that really exists, and governs the universe harmoniously. This thought is apprehended slowly; and the interval before its attainment is attended with doubts and defeats as well as triumphs.

Who will stop the practice of sin, so long as he believes in the pleasures of sin? When mortals once