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ton OF divine, ever-present, demon
strable law, that humanity, through
his example. might know and under
stand this law and be able to intelli
gently apply this knowledge. This Law
OF God must. from the very nature OF
God and his relation to man and the
universe. be universally and eternally
applicable. 1t must be at the com
mand and for the benefit of all OF
Gods children throughout all of God 6
creation. Thus we find that the Law
employed by Jesus In his mighty works
10 the. same law that enabled the Is.
raelites to pass on dry land through
the Red Sea. that restored her son
whole to the Schunamite mother, that
delivered the three Hebrew young men
from the fiery furnace, that enabled
Daniel to dwell unframed In the den
,of lions, and the same law whereby
the apostles and the early Christians
Tor some centuries after the time OF
Jesus obeyed the Masters commands
~ doing his works. And this is the
same law through which Christian Sci
ence Is today bringing to humanity the
world over relief from its sufferings
and misery.
Jesus, Demonstration Of Gods Law
That the teachings and practice oil
Jesus were predicated on a hypothesis
wholly spiritual to the complete exclu
sion OF matter and its so-called laws
Jesus own words and works leave nc
doubt. The entire purpose and i'm
sport OF his career were to educate
mankind away from the belief in Q
material universe as real and into the
understanding of man and the un:
verse created by God, SPIRITUALITY
universe governed by the law Of God
Spirit. and not subject to chance
change and the mutations OF time.
There is no known physical law OF
so-called law of matter that Jesus did
not completely annul and overthrow
through his intelligent application OF
Gods law. At the wedding feast jesus
turned the water into wine, proving
once and for all that material qualities
and phenomena are mental and have
no authority of their own in the pres
ence of an intelligent understanding
and application of Gods law. In the
healing of the son of the nobleman al
Capernaum when a long distance from
the sick man, and in the instantaneous
transportation of the ship across the
sea OF Galilee, Jesus demonstrated that
time, place and space are mental quail
tiles and that they may all be elimi
mated through the correct application
of the law of God. Jesus stilled the
tempest, quieting the winds and the
waves, proving that even the elements
of the material world are subservieni
and subject to Gods law. He walked
the waters of the Sea of Galilee, prov
ing of no effect the law Of gravitatior
in the presence of an intelligent under
standing and application of divine law
Jesus fed great multitude of people
with seven loaves and few small fish
thus proving that mans supply is pure
ly mental, that It is abundant, ever
present and available, not dependent
upon matter or material conditions and
discrediting forever the belief in the
necessity for poverty, lack and limita
ton OF every name and nature. Jesus
proved by healing the multitudes OF
sick that disease Is not of God and
hence has no authority to fetter man;
that matter does not make a man sick
and that matter and its so-called laws
have no part in the healing and the
health of mankind. He proved by rails
ing Lazarus from the dead and by his
own victory over the tomb that there
is no divine decree, authority or law
back of the condition called death, and
at the utter nothingness of matter and
the supreme allness of Spirit.
Yet Jesus said think not that I am
come to destroy the law or the proph
cts: am not come to destroy but tc
fulfill" Taking, then, his works ir
support of his words, is II not obvious
hot h &C. off hn
of establishing an understanding in the
consciousness of humanity of a law OF
Spirit. or God, which would supersede
all so-called physical law. thereby prov
ing matter and it's laws to be unreal
and not of God, hence powerless?
1t cannot be readily imagined that
Jesus was sent to annul or destroy
Gods law This would have been ar
impossibiity, for Gods law, we are
repeatedly told in the Bible, is omnipo
tent Furthermore. of what benefit
would It have been to humanity, to
Jesus or to God, for Jesus to set aside
Gods law for the mere space of a mo
ment even were he capable Of so do
ing. in order to perform his miraclesi
Could there be any other explanation
of Jesus mission than that 1t was for
the express purpose of relieving man
kind of the burden of self-imposed, SO
called laws of matter, in submitting tc
which they have subjected themselves
throughout Tia centuries to conditions
of sin, sickness and death?
Christian Science and Matter.
Christian Science has received its in
spiration from a pure, spiritual inter
probation of the Scriptures from Gene
sis to Revelation. Bible teachings con-
stitute the warp and wool of Christian
Science and in it's somewhat startling
assertion that the spiritual is the real
and eternal and matter the unreal and
temporal, 1t points to the Bible, to the
words and works Of Jesus and to Its
own accomplishments in substantiatior
of the truth thereof Christian Science
is proving itself to be the truth by
proving the Bible true.
Christian Science shows us that mat
ter is the veil of misunderstanding
through which mankind have been Ia
boriously peering throughout the cen
turtles, and that underneath this cover
ing of mortal unreaiity lies all the sin,
sickness, misery and unhappiness tc
which humanity has been ever subject