The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-21

manifestations but he proved. at the same time that even material eX- istence, as such, Is but the product of a mistaken mental concept, and that time and place and space are but phases of this mental miasma or drea drama. When he walked the waves he completely overcame one of the most unvarying material laws of which we have any knowledge, In this instance Jesus proved that true substance Is not materially composed and that there is but one true attrac- ton, the attraction of God, or God $ Law. When he fed the thousands in the wilderness with a few loaves and fishes Jesus repeated and empha- sized what Moses and Elisha had ac- complished centuries before. In each of these instances 1t is proven that not only is mans supply infinite and ever available but that the multipli- cation enJoined upon man by God, in the first chapter of Genesis, is process dependent wholly upon sub mission to the Law of God and not upon any human concept of propa- gation and increase. And what did the many, many instances of healing of the sick, the maimed, the halt and the blind, by Jesus, accomplish for us? These thousands of instances of healing, most of them instantaneous, show us that there Is a Law of God which, when applied, can heal all our ills. be they what they may; that God Is not the author of sickness and that matter has no authority nor power in itself to create, to heal or to alleviate sickness and disease. When he raised from the bier the son of the widow Main, when he called forth Lazarus from the tomb and when he accompl shed his own resur- rection he proved not only the power of Gods Law to overcome what we have thought to be a most relentless law of material existence. but he proved, in addition, that through the experience of death we are not ush- cred into the glories of heavenly existence. Jesus final exit from the flesh, in his ascension shows conclu- sively that the only roadway to heaven lies in the overcoming, through the application of Gods Law, of all material conditions of exist ence, even to that Of death which we have been so enormously taught is stepping stone to heaven. If there are two things which stand out above ev- erything else in the teachings ana works of Jesus they are. first. that death is an enemy which must be overcome through the correct under standing and application of Gods Law and, second. that heaven Is not a locality off somewhere in the blue empyrean but that heaven is. rather, divine state of consciousness which may and must be obtained here and now through mental regeneration. Jesus said The Kingdom of heaven Is at hand" not afar off. did he notF And you will recall that on one oc- casion he was asked relative to the whereabouts of heaven and when IL should come and his reply was The Kingdom of God cometh not with ob- servation. neither shall they say Lo herei or. Lo there! for, behold, the Kingdom of God is within you
 And then, long after Jesus time do we find the record of the accomplish guent of many wonderful works Dy his disciples and by members of the early Christian Church that exem- plify and emphasize the omnipotence of the Law of God. Both religious and profane history furnishes us with ample evidence that the healing work accomplished so freely by Jesus was carried on for many generations aft CT his time.
 True Salvation
 
 self evident that if the world Is ever to be Christianized It must come about because of tangible, unmistak- able evidences of healing and e. generating such as Jesus accom- plished and which he said we should be able to accomplish also because of our understanding of-the Law Of God which he came to establish with us? We have for years and years been sending our good. noble. self sacrificing missionaries into the countries of the unchristian, or heather, with the hope that we could bring them to Christ through preach ing without practice. with the result that today but very small percent age of the earth's population can be called Christian. and this, because We have been unable to offer our neathen brethren the tangible and unmis takable signs of Christly un- derstanding which Jesus said should follow them thai belieye--them that understand Gods Law and the method of its application. When We have gone to one and told him Of the beauties of Chri. tianity. of the joy,