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Rh the signs of the Messianic appearing, and sent the inquiry to Jesus, “Art thou he that should come?” Was John's faith greater than that of the Samaritan woman, who said, “Is not this the Christ?”

There was also a certain centurion of whose faith Jesus himself declared, “I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.” In Egypt, it was Mind which saved the Israelites from belief in the plagues. In the wilderness, streams flowed from the rock, and manna fell from the sky. The Israelites looked upon the brazen serpent, and straightway believed that they were healed of the poisonous stings of vipers. In national prosperity, miracles attended the successes of the Hebrews; but when they departed from the true idea, their demoralization began. Even in captivity among foreign nations, the divine Principle wrought wonders for the people of God in the fiery furnace and in kings' palaces.

Judaism was the antithesis of Christianity, because Judaism engendered the limited form of a national or

tribal religion. It was a finite and material system, carried out in special theories concerning God, man, sanitary methods, and a religious cultus. That he made “himself equal with God,” was one of the Jewish accusations against him who planted Christianity on the foundation of Spirit, who taught as he was inspired by the Father and would recognize no life, intelligence, nor substance outside of God.

The Jewish conception of God, as Yawah, Jehovah,

or only a mighty hero and king, has not quite given place to the true knowledge of God. Creeds and rituals have not cleansed their hands of