The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-12-11

express health; if he has been limited
by poverty, he VIII begin to prove that
with the divine Mind supply and de-
mand are always equal; if he has been
filled with fear. he win begin to lay
hold Of peace and confidence, and in
place Of the constant fear that death
IS inevitable, he viii grasp the fact
that Life is eternal. These are the re-
suits of working rightly, of exalting
Spirit and refusing the claims of the
physical senses. "A man has made
notable advance when he has learned to
work rightly. blessed is he who has
found his work. said Carlyle, "let him
ask no other blessedness." Christ Jesus
was worker. He glorified Spirit and
repudiated the false conception of ma
teriaI senses. He said 81 must work
the works of him that sent me"
THE WORK OF CHRIST JESUS
I Down through the centuries of Bible
history, patriarch and prophet gave to
the world the truth about God and man
as revealed to them. But they did not
receive the full revelation of truth.
They had the spirit, if not the full
ness of the letter They foretold a fu-
ture revelation Of truth which should
come with the Messiah, Shiloh, Christ.
Jesus of Nazareth brought to men the
revelation of the Fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man. He
taught and demonstrated the gospel of
love. He taught that the whole duty
of man is to love God supremely, and
his neighbor as himself. The conscious
ness of Christ Jesus so perfectly re-
Elected God that no suggestions of sin
or mortality could enter. In the pres
ence Of his unparalleled knowledge of
God, sin, disease and death fled as
darkness flees before the light. He
knew that the men and women who
hung upon his words, the words of
him who spake as never man spake,
We're not sick, SHINING and dying NOR
tails; he saw them to be the children
of Love, the perfect handiwork of Cod
and because he saw them as they
really We're he loved them with d.
vine compassion, and because rs loved
them, he healed them. We are told in
Matthew that he healed all manner of
disease. Christ Jesus never conceded
that there was any such thing as an
incurable disease. He knew that dis
ease was a part of the sum total of hu-
man error and that the Irresistible
power of divine Lore was able to de-
stroy it. Diseases Of whatsoever ma
ture were all contrary to the divine
purpose and he destroyed them all
equally. The modern classification of
diseases as functional, nervous and or
ganic he disregarded entirely. He
proved this for others by healing the
sick and raising the dead. And then he
proved it by the supreme test of de-
stroying death for himself. He allowed
his enemies to attempt to destroy his
body in order to prove that man is
deathless. In the garden of Gethsemane,
on the cross, in the sepulchre, he over
came pain, he destroyed human hatred
arrayed againts divine Love; he arose
the victor over death and he robbed
the grave of dts victory. He proved for
all time that the physical senses cam
not bind man. He rose superior to
those senses because he thought Gods
thoughts. These ideas, these thoughts,
these angels, came to him clothed with
omniscience and omnipotence, and be-
cause these angels ministered unto
him, he was endued with power to de-
stroy sin, death and the grave. He had
an unparalleled victory over the physi-
cal senses, and because of that victory
his career stands out in history bea-
con light immeasurably transcending
all other human experiences.
HIS HEALING THE SICK.
Now what is the explanation of his
healing worl1s2 Were they super
natural? Did they set aside natural
law which ordinarily governs? No.
they were not supernatural They set
aside no law of God, but they were
accomplished in obedience to His law
They annulled mortal human beliefs
which are based on physical sense evil
dence. Jesus utterly refused to accept
as final or conclusive the evidence OF
the five physical senses. Spiritual
sense was his only guide, his only
basis OF thought and action.
Now. what IS spiritual sense? "Spir-
itual sense" says Mrs. Eddy on page
200 of Science and Health. 'fs a con-
scious, constant capacity to understand
God" 1T IS the spirit that quicken
eth Jesus declared, and then he
added, "the flesh profteth nothing.
To illustrate, let us note the manner
in which he handled the case Of a man
sick Of the palsy as recorded in the
ninth chapter of Matthew's Gospel.
The materialist, the man who accepted
physical sense evidence as a fact,
would doubtless have argued that palsy
was an incurable disease, and also that
the man was sinner reaping the just
reward OF his Gins That is the ar
gument Of the human carna1 mind,
which assumes that man is a physical
organism, subject to sin, disease and
death. The great Teacher, the master
metaphy sician, was never deceived by
shallow scphtstry. He knew that sin
and disease were both results Of wrong
thinking and that both are healed by
the same method through divine UNDER
standing. He knew that despite all the
piled up evidence of the physical senses |
TO the contrary, man is perfect even
as his Father IN heaven is perfect;
that he is upright, free, strong. that he
is not weak nor the victim Of any he