Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-18

probation OF the Scripture, For the
law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free from the
law of sin and DEATH" (Roman viii,
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/, as follower of Christ Jesus,
who said: "Whosoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me (understandeth me)
shall never die" John XII, 26)-I
cannot accede to this request of the
President and unite in celebrating
the so-called death of Thomas Jeffer-
son. "If man keep my saying, he
shall never see death. Christ Jesus.
(John viii, SD
| cannot accept President Cool
idge's statement, that the celebration
of the death of Thomas Jefferson will
result in "the re-dedication of the
American people to the ideals and
principles, which brought the Re-
public into existence"
Whoever accedes to this request
will be held to the continued dream
of life in flesh. There is no death,
since there is but one Creator, God,
Spirit, eternal Life and Love, and
the universe reflects this infinite
Life and Love in infinite ideas, which
compose the body of God and His
Christ.
spirit is infinite; therefore Spirit
is all. There is no natter" MARY
Baker Eddy, Miscellany, page 357D
Two thousand years ago Christ, the
Son of God, taught and demonstrated
this spiritual fact, through the over
coming of the claim of life in flesh
and said to his disciples, 81 CO." but
Il will come again" John xiv, 3 !;
and today he is verifying his promise.
The light of Spirit, eternal Life and
Love, is dissolving the freshly mind
and is revealing spiritual man, made
in Gods image and likeness, to whom
He gave "dominion" over all the
earth. In the words of David, 81
shall not die, but live. and declare
the works of the Lord" psalm
cXviii., ID Christ is again appear
ing, in final conflict with the so-called
dragon and the fiesh-embodied rep
resentatives of the dragon.
The word nation" comes from a
root, meaning Il am born" Christ
Jesus said to Nicodemus, a master in
. Israel, "Ye must be born again. We
must awake to the reality and ever
presence of God, Spirit, the only
Creator, who is eternal Life and Love
Rehabilitation means re-birth.
America is a Christian nation. 1t
was spiritually conceived born of God
and His Christ and them that are
Christ's, and is being revealed. in full
fillment of Biblical prophecy, to
those who are obedient to the law Of
God, Spirit, and His ever-present
Christ. The makers of America were
and continue to be spiritually end0w-
ed prophets of God; and of this
great company of preachers, "
Thomas Jefferson was and ever will
be a spiritual luminary.
The government of America is, al
ways has been and ever will be, ION
the shoulder of Christ" whose repre-
sentatives, the founders of America,
demonstrated their responsiveness to
the operation of spiritual law, 1.-The
law of life in Christ Jesus"
To those who today are spiritually
illumined. who realize the allness of
Spirit, Life and Love, Americas "re-
dedication" means the acceptance and
gradual demonstration of the spirit
ual fact of being. namely, Spirit is
infinite; therefore Spirit is all. There
is no natter" MARY Baker Eddy,
Miscellany, page 357.)
This process of growth comes not
through the celebration of death but
through the understanding of the
life-giving elements which are at the
very root and core of Americas be-
ing. CAS- in Adam (fesh) all die,
even so in Christ (TIuth) shall all be
made alive" q Cor. XIV, 22.)
"Whosoever liveth and believeth in
me shall never die" declared the mas
ter Metaphysician, Christ Jesus, the
demonstration over the wages of
SIM" which are the belief Of life in
flesh, OF matter. and produce the
phenomenon Nof death, "the last
enemy which is to be destroyed" not
submitted to, nor even acknowledged.
as any part of spiritual man-and
there is no other man. "For to Be
carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace"
RomanS Ill, g.
John said: "Now are we the sons
of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be; but " row that
when he shall appear, shall be
like him; for we shall see him as he
is" q John ill.,. 2.) Here we have
an indisputable definition of mans
eternal, indestructible selfhood, iden-
titN as wholly mental and SniritlIaI