Page:Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1906).djvu/366

350 substance to be matter. They think of matter as something and almost the only thing, and of the things which

pertain to Spirit as next to nothing, or as very far removed from daily experience. Christian Science takes exactly the opposite view.

To understand all our Master's sayings as recorded in the New Testament, sayings infinitely important,

his followers must grow into that stature of manhood in Christ Jesus which enables them to interpret his spiritual meaning. Then they know how Truth casts out error and heals the sick. His words were the offspring of his deeds, both of which must be understood. Unless the works are comprehended which his words explained, the words are blind.

The Master often refused to explain his words, because it was difficult in a material age to apprehend spiritual Truth. He said: “This people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.”

“The Word was made flesh.” Divine Truth must be known by its effects on the body as well as on the mind,

before the Science of being can be demontrated. Hence its embodiment in the incarnate Jesus, — that life-link forming the connection through which the real reaches the unreal, Soul rebukes sense, and Truth destroys error.

In Jewish worship the Word was materially explained, and the spiritual sense was scarcely perceived. The