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

dead and Christ shall give thee light. F"
(Eph. ", 14.) America is the battle
ground of this Armageddon and vic
tory is already on the side of Christ
and them that are Christ's, at this,
his imminent reappearing.
At his first appearing Christ gave
the ilnassailable, comforting assur-
ance that he would come again and
that "He that believeth on me, the
works that | do shall he do also; and
greater works than these shall he do
because | go unto my Father" John
xiv, 12.) Christ Jesus did the
works" of raising the so-called
dead. Why should not his disciples
of today do the same? This is divine
demand for all Christ's disciples, at
this hour, who are willing to suffer
with him. out of the fieshly mind into
the mind of Christ, that they may
reign with him" Gil Tim. H., 12),
and continue to live with God in the
royal sovereignty of deathless, spirit
ual manhood and womanhood, which
'manifests itself in the spiritual abil-
ity successfully to cross swords with
the so-called dragon, the belief of life
in matter, OF flesh, and conquer, des-
troy the carnal qualities which pro-
duce sin, sickness and death.
''The wages of sin," the pains and
pleasures of matter, end in death !;
'but the gift of God is eternal life,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. :"
(Romans vi, 23.) This was the lib
Grating declaration of Paul, who,
emerging from the fiery furnace of
publication, was bathed in light, the
mental spiritual illumination that
"shined about him from Heaven"
and revealed Christ Jesus. in fulfil
ment of his Masters promise, "Lo, |
am with you Away, even unto the
end (of all mortal, material fleshly
sense) "And the men which
! iourneyed with him stood speechless
hearing a voice, but seeing no man"
/ (Acts XIX, ~
I Here is definite statement of diff
ferent degrees Of spiritual vision, OF
spiritual illumination, or spiritual
realization. Paul had risen spiritual
", to come into mental contact with
the ideal Christ-man. He visualized,
OF revealed the image of Christ. the
Son of God. His companions, not hav
ing progressed to his mental spirit
uaI development, could not share his
vision.
! Thomas Jefferson had risen sui
iciently, after years of thought and
conservation to his great ideal of lib
erty, to bring out, under divine reve-
lation. the greatest documentary
symbol of all time, the Declaration of
independence. 1t is logical and I'M
perative to understand that Thomas
Jefferson, under the law of spiritual
progression, is nearing the fulness,
the spiritual reality Of his vision, and
is revealing, or developing his spirit
ual individuality, as a child of God.
among "the great cloud of witnesses
who have gone on before him. He is
living stone in Gods universal
Declaration of Independence, the
body, Church, or structure of Christ,
the spiritual eternal man of Gods
creating.
"For we know that il our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dis
solved we have building of God,
an house (consCiousness) not made
with hands. eternal In the heavens.
CO Cor. V. ID
"Behold the tabernacle of God is
with men, and he will dwell with
them and they shall be his people,
and God himself shall be with them,
and be their God."-tReN. Xxi, -
This is the teaching of Christ
Jesus. the Son of God, and is the
mystery" hid from the wise and
prudent and revealed unto babes,
who are eagerly striving to possess
the Mind of Christ, and are yearn-
inely looking for Christs reappear-
ing, according to his promise, Il go,
but 81 will come again. John xiv,
I3.)
Thomas Jefferson expressed his
reverence for, and belief in. the
teaching of Christ. Over a century
ago, on April q, 1908, Jefferson
wrote to DR.. Benjamin Rush: "To the
! corruptions of Christianity, | am in
deed opposed but not to the genuine
precepts of Jesus himself"
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer
and Founder of Christian Science,
says:
"Buflding on the rock of ChriSs
teachings we have a superstructure
eternal in the heavens, omnipotent
on earth encompassing time ana
eternity." Message for l9oi page
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And again Mrs. Eddy says:
life is real, and death is the il
IuSion A demonstration of the facts