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ful, and spiritually minded. Working
 according to this pattern they are en-
 ablod to love their fellowman and to
 heal his ills when he turns to them
 for help. Genuine Christian Scientists 1 pray continually that they keep in thought this perfect model. They strive
 to be governed only by the qualities of love, perfection and holiness, which
 emanate from the divine Mind; and
 they are alert to destroy in their own thought the motive or aim which would
 injure or depress their neighbor. They
 strive to follow their great Exemplar,
 Christ Jesus. who said: "A new com
 mahdment l give unto you, That ye
 love one another; as I have loved you,
 that ye also love one another. By this
 shall all men know that ye are my disciples. if ye have love one to am
 other (John 35: 3435)
 The Testimony of Christ Jesus !
 Christ Jesus was the great exponent |
 of the omnipotence of God. By reason ]
 of his sinless birth and sonship with
 the Father knew and expressed the |
 nature of God. His consciousness so |
 perfectly reflected God that no sug- | : gestion Of sin or mortality could enter |
 In the presence of his unparalleled knowledge of Spirit, fear, disease, and Q light. Knowing that God is Love, he
 loved with divine tenderness his fellow
 men and because of that love he healed them. We are told in the Gospels that he healed all manner of disease. In
 Matthew we read this simple state
 meut,-"And they brought unto him all
 sick people that were taken with devils and those which were lunatick, and i, those that had the palsy: and he healed
 them (Matt. 4:24J As a result of these headings, the people glorfied God 7 and rejOiced that the power of God was so demonstrably manifested among I men.
 Christ Jesus accepted only the testi- n mony of Spirit. He knew that mat ter and Spirit were antipodes and an- tagonistic. Matter is unreal, Spirit is
 real. Tt is the spirit that quickeneth;
 the flesh profiteth nothing" Jesus de-
 clared; and by the term flesh he
 meant matter mortality, carnality, }. whatsoever worketh abomination. or i lnaketh a lie" (Rev 21:27.D Now < Jesus never taught that God created 2 matter or that God was in any way f responsible for sin, sickness, or death. Y On the contrary, he exposed the un e real nature of these errors and de IT. stroyed them through the might of the e Christ Mind That only is real which
 is spiritual and immortal. Sickness r and sin are not created Of God; they Q are therefore not eternal-they are IF merely the fleeung concepts of the hu- , man mind. having no actual basis and f therefore. are unreal. This, Jesus Is proved throughout his whole earthly
 ministry, and Christian Science is - again demonstrating that spiritual
 things are the real while matter and
 mortality are the unreal.
 Christ Jesus the Son of God
 Christ Jesus was not God but the is Son Of God, as he himself said. As a ,- man born of a woman he was the Son " of man. As the Christ he manifested 10 the qualities of his divine Father m hence, his saying: T and My Father ,d are one The true Scripural teach ,e ings regarding Christ Jesus and hls as relation to God are clearly and cor 7e rectly presented in the writings of Mrs. T. Eddy. It may be asked How can this "a be known? The answer is. By prac- ,t tical proof. When the student begins
 to understand the nature of the divine D. unity existing between Jesus the of Christ and the ever present God, as x taught by Christian Science and by rs the Bible, he can heal the sick by the O. power of prayer; and the more clearly as he understands this divine unity the -i- more quickly and the more effectively is he can do this holy healing work. Now Ip it is necessary to gain a clear dis an tinction between God and Christ Jesus se the Son of God. in order to follow the at Master Teacher, and to repeat in thi! h. century his marvellous headings. These 1v truths are not difficult to gain. Purit! ot of thought, careful study, and yearn-
 |. .lv Scriptures to all Commenting on Jesu: as the Christ and his unity with God il nd Science and Health, page 332. Mrs IS Eddy wrote: Jesus demonstrates he Christ; he proved that Christ is tn ou divine idea of God-the Holy Ghost, O
 Comforter revealing the divine Prin te ciple. Love, and leading into all truth lal Salvation For All Men
 an The healing power demonstrated b! fife Jesus was not confined to himself a ,ot evidence of his special sonship wit air God. It was the divine knowledge o he the Father available for all men. Jesu .rv taught his immediate followers tn IS power of God to heal the sick and t led free the sinner. But the saving gospe he Of the Christ, the Messiah. was no of confined-nor could 1T be oonfined-t m q chosen few, to one age, or to on be people. It was the un.versal gift c ize God to all Ills children. The Master of Physiclan sald,-'Go ye into all tn ni world, and preach the gospel to ever to creature" thus making his message ( to universal application. He further said ing And these signs shall follow theI aid that believe; in my name shall the ld cast out devils. they shall speak wit of new tongues: they shall take up ser ion pents. and if they drink any deadl is thing. it shall not hurt them; they sha ian lay hands on the sick. and they sha ect recover Mark 16:l5-17.)
 q Commenting on the universality md divine grace, Jesus said: "Befol ner Apraham was am. Tn other word i'm the Christ is the divine. ever -preser by manifestation or God forever ready ect heal and save, and so it has bee ion proved lhfoushout the whole hlstoi aNv of Christianity.
 ed, ne iest'nony or Apostles and Ear md Christians
 res In the New Iestament we ma al: an. that the twelve disciples healed: stl
 seventy did likewise. Paul. who "; nal not at first a disciple of Jesus all ons healeu lhe SICK anu falseu the uea the ana Tor three centuries the early Chr1 ion tlans recognized and practlced healii of as q part of the work of the churc and lrenaeus. the Greek bishop of Lyor ual. who lived at the close of the secoi and century. assures us that all Chrstia am of his time possessed the power was healing; that they prophesied, cast 0
 SC devils healed the sick. and sometim r d raised the dead.
 had But after a time the early Christa 6 npcamp laY in tHplr loValtN n fhf