Milford chronicle., 1922-05-12

people, the common people who heard
him gladly; and he spoke to them in their
own tongue. One of the very few in
stances preserved to us of what he SAID
in that tongue is in the words which pre-
ceded his giving up the "ghost," the mere
semblance of life. which he said he couio
lay down and could take up again. as ne
later proved. These words, all VIII re-
member, were: ,'Eloi, Eloi, lama, sabacn-
thani?" which are translated, my Goo,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me-!
The word Eloi, which Jesus used' IS the
Old Testament Chaldean word for What
in English is translated my God. IL
means my strength" or power, mean
ing which is entirely devoid OF anthrop-
omorphism or corporeality. According TO
Jesus, then, God was his power, the pow
er upon which he always relied with
which he accomplished everything. Nor
did he leave us in the dark as to just
what this power is. In speaking to his
disciples he said, "CalI no man your
father upon the earth: for one is your
Father, which is in heaven. In otner
words. there is only one cause of crea-
tor, and the universe including man Is
its product, the product of Eloi' the one
only power.
Again speaking to the woman at the
well, Jesus said, God is Spirit" which
would certainly mean that his power, the
only power he ever used, the true cause
of all. and consequently the cause OF only
that which is true, was Spirit or Mind,
not matter of any kind or physique. And
looking at the teachings of Jesus, looking
at his words and at his works,-words
and works due to, impelled'by, emanating
from this Eloi or power, Spirit, Mind, or
intelligence,-ar we not bound to con-
clude that this power, Spirit, Mind was
infinite Love, and that this divine Love
was the very life of Jesus which nothing
could destroy and which was able to
raise him up at the last day? This one
mower then, this one Spirit, Soul or
Mind, this one existence or Life, this one
reality or Truth, this one infinite Love-
in a word, the divine Principle upon
which Jesus always relied, with when
he accomplished everything was all that
constituted the Saviour who is the same
Yesterday, today, and forever, with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow
Of turning" who is with us alway. This
is lust what Christian Science defines
God to be, as will be seen from the fol-
lowing passage which may be found on
mage 465 in the Christian Science text
hook. Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy; the Dis
coverer and Founder of Christian Science
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, IN
finite Mind, Spirit Soul, Principle, Life
Truth, Love-"
MAN
Not only did Jesus illustrate, not only
does Christian Science teach what Coo
is. but in doing this Jesus illustrated and
Christian Science teaches what man is.
Does not a father want his son to be
like himself, and does not son want
to be like his father? So true is this
that right in the beginning we read that
"God. the Father of us ALL" created man
in his own image. male and female
created he them" In other words, He
created them just like Himself. How
then do we know what man is? Do we
know it by corporeality, matter stuftE
If so, then the more corporeality' the
more matter, the more stuff, the more
man. But do not we rather know what
man is, by what one manifests or eX-
presses? Was it not the manifestation
the expression of the power. the Mlnd'
the Spirit, the Life, the Truth, and the
Love, which are altogether good Co..
that made Jesus the best, the SAFEST the
most efficient, the most able or powerful,
the most godlike man that ever lived?
Did it not make him so godlike that all
Christendom has called him God, wor-
shiped him as God? 1t has done this,
too. Notwithstanding the fact that Jesus
rebulked the man for calling him, not
God. but merely good. saying, There is
none good but one, that is, God" He
did this because he recognized, as no
one else ever has, that even all he mani
tested of God did not begin to express
but only indicated the infinite good that
is God. This is shown by the fact that
he expected not only the emulation OF
his example by his followers, but more
-"He that believeth on me, the works
that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do, because 1
20 unto my Father" because illustrate
the way, and show, as he again said'
that "the Son can do nothing Of himself
but what he seeth the Father do: for
what things soever he doeth, these also
doeth the Son likewise"
And are not we all the sons and daugh-
ters of God, made in the image and like
ness of God, and, if so, is it not incum-
bent upon all of us to also show forth the
intelligence, the power, and the love OF
God?
MAN AND MANKIND
We have seen what was the power, the
Life. Mind, Love that animated, enlight-
ened, impelled, and capacitated the man
Jesus We have seen that it was omnipo-
tense, omniscience, God, and that it was
the expression of God that made him the
godlike and true man that he was. All
of us also know what is the kind OF
power, life, mind, spirit, and love that
are expressed or manifested by mankind
or kind of men. All of us know that this
power, life, mind, spirit, and love are
all believed to inhere in the flesh, mat
ter. Is not this true?
The man whom Jesus presented is
spiritual, and spiritually minded, the real
man. The man that humanity insists
upon as the only real man,-the kind OF
a man that is really no man, is fieshly or
'carnally minded. Yet Christianity teaches
that ito be carnally minded is death; but
to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God; for it is not subject to the
law of God, neither indeed can be-" To be
the one kind of man, then, is to be the
son of God. To be the other kind of man
is to be like those of whom Jesus spoke
when he said, "Ye are of your father
the devil" and the devil he called "a
murderer" that which is destructive OF