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Rh Jesus' life proved, divinely and Scientifically, that God is Love; whereas priest and rabbi affirmed God to be a mighty potentate, who loves and hates. The Jewish theology gave no hint of the unchanging Love of God.

The universal belief in death is of no advantage. It cannot make Life or Truth apparent. Death

will be found at length to be a mortal dream, which comes in darkness and disappears with the light.

The Man of Sorrows was in no peril from salary or popularity. Though entitled to the homage of the world,

and endorsed pre-eminently by the approval of God, his brief triumphal entry into Jerusalem was followed by the desertion of all save a few friends, who sadly followed him to the foot of the cross.

The resurrection of the great demonstrator of God's power was the proof of his final triumph over body

and matter, and gave full evidence of Divine Science, — evidence so important to mortals. The belief that man has existence or mind separate from God is a dying error. This error Jesus met with Divine Science, and so proved its nothingness. Because of the wondrous glory which God bestows on manhood, temptation, sickness, and death had no terror for Jesus. Let men think they had killed the body! Afterwards he would show it to them unchanged. This should demonstrate that the true man, in Christian Science, is governed by God, Good, not by evil, and is therefore immortal. Jesus had taught his disciples the Science of this proof. He was here to enable them to test his hitherto uncomprehended saying, “The works that I do, ye shall do also.” They must understand more fully