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Rh were pure; theirs were carnal. His senses drank in the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and Life; their senses absorbed the material evidence of sin, sickness, and death.

Their imperfections and impurity felt the ever-present rebuke of his perfections and purity. Hence the world's

hatred of the just and perfect Jesus, and the prophet's foresight of the reception error must give him. “Despised and rejected of men,” was Isaiah's graphic word concerning the coming Prince of Peace. Herod and Pilate laid aside old feuds, in order to unite in putting to shame and death the best man who ever trod the globe. To-day, as of old, error and evil again make common cause against the exponents of Truth.

The Man of Sorrows best understood the nothingness of material life and intelligence, and the mighty actuality

of all-inclusive Mind, God. These are the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or Christian Science. The highest earthly representative of God, speaking of human ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his disciples, speaking not for their day only, but for all time: “The works that I do, shall ye do also,” and “These signs shall follow them that believe.”

The accusations of the Pharisees were as self-contradictory as their religion. The bigot, the debauchee, the

hypocrite, called Jesus a glutton and a wine-bibber. They said: “He casteth out devils through Beelzebub,” and is the “friend of sinners.” The latter accusation was true, but not in their meaning. Jesus was no ascetic. He did not fast, as did the Baptist's disciples; yet there never lived a man so far removed from