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Jesus returned an affirmative reply, recounting his works
instead of referring to his doctrine, confident that this
exhibition of the divine power to heal would fully answer
the question. Hence his reply: "Go and show
John again those things which ye do hear and see: the
blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers
are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up,
and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And
blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me." In
other words, he gave his benediction to any one who
should not deny that such effects, coming from divine
Mind, prove the unity of God, - the divine Principle
which brings out all harmony.
(Christ rejected)
The Pharisees of old thrust the spiritual idea and the
man who lived it out of their synagogues, and retained
their materialistic beliefs about God. Jesus'
system of healing received no aid nor approval
from other sanitary or religious systems, from doctrines
of physics or of divinity; and it has not yet been generally
accepted. To-day, as of yore, unconscious of the
reappearing of the spiritual idea, blind belief shuts the
door upon it, and condemns the cure of the sick and sinning
if it is wrought on any but a material and a doctrinal
theory. Anticipating this rejection of idealism, of the
true idea of God, - this salvation from all error, physical
and mental, - Jesus asked, "When the Son of man
cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?"
(John's misgivings)
Did the doctrines of John the Baptist confer healing
power upon him, or endow him with the truest conception
of the Christ? This righteous preacher
once pointed his disciples to Jesus as "the
Lamb of God;" yet afterwards he seriously questioned
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