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52 From early boyhood he was about his “Father's business.” His pursuits lay far apart from theirs. His master

was Spirit; their master was matter. He served God; they served mammon. His affections were pure; theirs were carnal. His senses drank in the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and life; their senses testified oppositely, and absorbed the material evidence of sin, sickness, and death.

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

hatred of the just and perfect Jesus, and the prophet's foresight of the reception error would 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 that ever trod the globe. To-day, as of old, error and evil again is 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 God, good. These were two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or Christian Science, which armed him with Love. 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: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he 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