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Rh their Master's triumph, did not perform many wonderful works until they saw him after his crucifixion, and learned that he had not died. This convinced them of the truthfulness of all he had taught.

In the walk to Emmaus, Jesus was known to his friends in the words which made their hearts burn

within them, and in the breaking of bread. The Spirit which identified Jesus thus, over eighteen centuries ago, has spoken in every age and clime, through the inspired Word. It is revealed to the receptive heart, and is again seen casting out evil and healing the sick.

The Master said plainly that physique was not Spirit; and he proved to the physical senses, after his resurrection,

that his body was not changed until he himself ascended, — or, in other words, rose even higher in the understanding of Spirit. To convince Thomas of this, he caused him to examine the nail-prints and the spear-wound.

His unchanged physical condition, after what seemed to be death, was followed by his exaltation above all

material conditions, and explained his ascension, which revealed unmistakably a probationary and progressive state beyond the grave. Jesus was the Way. That is, he marked the way for all men. In this, his final demonstration, called the Ascension, which closed the earthly record of Jesus, he rose altogether beyond the physical knowledge of his disciples, and the material senses knew him no more.

His students then received the Holy Ghost. By this is meant, that by all they had witnessed and suffered they were roused to an enlarged understanding of