Arizona republican., 1920-02-16
Jesus Summary

(Written for Christian Science Monitor)
 The outstanding feature of the mis- sion of Christ Jesus is that he taught mankind to know God at hand and not that God had been known to the patri- archs, Moses, and the prophets. but so blinded had they become by the cere- monial religion of the rabbis it was hard for them to perceive that He could be known to them also. This is why they were so much more ready to &C., cept the works than to grasp the Prin- ciple, and this is also the reason why the Master so consistently urged them to give proofs rather than to make professions of their love of and obedi- ence to the one God. And yet in very deed the Jews were "the light of the world" They had kept the flame of monotheism burning through all the centuries of their history. amidst idol atry and pantheism within and with cut in exile and slavery as well as in pr osperity. But the salt had lost it's sayor and the form of godliness was denying the power thereof.
 Jesus restored the savor to the salt. He set a city upon a hill by teaching and demonstrating an understood Principle. God was no longer a tribal deity to be propitiated with sin offer ings and eace-offerings, who dwelt in the holy of holies within the veil of the temple in Jerusalem. He was the tender, loving Father, feeding the hun gry, healing the sick, forgiving and re- storing the sinner through the minis trations of Christ Jesus, the beloved Son, who understood Him perfectly. Jesus disrobed religion of materialism :; he stripped it of Journalism and dog matism; and by his example he proved that God was not e mighty potentate ruling His subjects through fear and punishment, but infinite Love, or Prin- ciple, to be understood, approached, thankfulness, a Father to be trusted with the sublime assurance of a little child in the presence of the parent of whose love he is certain.
 It was a practical religion the Mas ter taught-not one of theories and arguments-a religion of deeds rather than of words. Divine Love was the Principle and directing influence of his whole career. and He proved its pres ence, demonstrating his love for God by his service to men. So apparent was his benignity that even the ques- tioning scribe stood aoashed in his presence and could but agree with ''His sublime summary" which, Mrs. Eddy says, points to the religion of Love-" (Science and Health. with Key to the Scriptures, D. 13S.) Jesus summarized the whole of Judaism-the law and the prophets-and. to quote the scribe, his summary was "the truth; for there is ope God; and there is none other but he: and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices"
 Now, one of the most interesting things in the practice of Christian Science is that the students capacity to demonstrate the eternal facts of be- ing increases in the proportion that he realizes his ability to grasp and to apply the laws and rules which proceed from and are governed by divine Prin- ciple. Love. therefore. which is but another name for God, is not to be ac- cepted intellectually as fulfilling the law of Spirit: Love is something which calls for action. And we can prove that we have Love and know Love that we worship God-by loving our fellow man and by translating this love into deeds of kindness. tenderness, and compassion, by so coduoting our selves toward our neighbor that we