The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-09-27

human beings, who were govern.
ed by the carnal mind, had accept
ed changed belief concerning
Lazrus. They believed that he had
lived in matter and was material
and hence that he had died in mat
ter. Jesus looked through the
mask and saw the real man who
was alive all of the time, and by
seeing the real man, Jesus destroy
ed the false concept, and thus made
it possible for the real condition
of Life to appear. Having seen
the real man, who was alive every
instant, all that Jesus needed to do
was to say lazarus. come forth, :"
and he came forth, alive.
The belief that man is now mat
erial, but, that his immortality will
appear after the death of his ply
steal body, is rapidly giving place
to better understanding. 1t is be-
ginning to become tolerably clear
to many people that death is not
the doorway through which hui
man beings pass from material
state of existence into the kingdom
Of heaven.
St. Paul taught and declared
that death is an enemy that can
and will be destroyed. Enoch got
rid of his physical body without
dying. Elijah did the same. OBJ
viously they destroyed and got rid
of every material and erroneous
mental quality. This evangelical
ton went on until there was not:l
ing left in their consciousness but
the spiritualized thought. They
brought every material thought in
to obedience to Christ, and when
the last mortal thought had thus
been conquered and destroyed
there was nothing of the carnal
mind left in their consciousness to
throw a material concept over
them. People were then no longer
able to see them as material men.
They literally walked with God, as
the Bible states, for materials be-
liefs of the carnal mind no longer
interviewed to separate them frola
Him.
Jesus submitted to the crucifix-
ion of his BODY on the cross i'm ord
er that he might be the Wayshow-
er. He had already raised from
the dead, Lazarus, and the daugh.
ter of Jairus, and the son of the
widow Of Main, but he wanted to
60 further and prove for the bene-
tit of mankind that death is not q
divine necessity and that it is pos
sible for one to conquer it for him
self through his own understand
ing of the law of Life. He want
ed to prove that man is now i'm
mortal and that his immortality is
brought to light not by the death
of the physical body but by demon
strating the power of Spirit. He,
therefore, resuscitated his own
body, after it had been in the toni,
until the third day. He brought.
it ba1l and exhibited 1T to hund-
reds of people, so that there might
not be nay question or dispute
about. Thereafter he got rid of his
bod y precisely as Enoch and Elijah
had done. He thus proved the ON
impotence of Spirit and its avail.
ability to meet the last and final
human need. He proved that God
is Life, and that man is now i'm
mortal and can never die. and THAI
even the belief in death, that exists
nowhere except in the carnal mind.
can be destroyed by the truth which
he taught.
Do you think it is arrogatiny
too much for us to claim that We
are now the children of God? Ii
so, then read what St. John says in
| John iii, 2, ''Beloved, now are
we the sons of God, and it doth not
yet appear what we shall be: but
we know that, when he shall ap-
pear, we shall be like him; for We
shall see him as he is.
In making this statement it was
as though John had said," Jesus
has now taught me the truth about
mysef | now know that we are Sni.
ritual and not material. | cannot
tell you what my spiritual SELF
looks like, for l cannot see the spir.
itual man through material eyes,
but l know that when he shall ap-
pear we shall be like him.
St. Paul has said substantially
the same thing in Romans viii, Is,
and II, where we read, "We are
the children of God; and if child
rem, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint heirs with Christ.
Every one knows that when an
estate is left tn heirs. Jointly thew