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(Master's business)
From early boyhood he was about his "Father's
business." His pursuits lay far apart from theirs. His master
was Spirit; their master was matter. He
served God; they served mammon. His affections
were pure; theirs were carnal. His senses drank in
the spiritual evidence of health, holiness, and life; their
senses testified oppositely, and absorbed the material evidence
of sin, sickness, and death.
(Purity's rebuke)
Their imperfections and impurity felt the ever-present
rebuke of his perfection and purity. Hence the world's
hatred of the just and perfect Jesus, and the
prophet's foresight of the reception error would
give him. "Despised and rejected of men," was Isaiah's
graphic word concerning the coming Prince of Peace.
Herod and Pilate laid aside old feuds in order to unite
in putting to shame and death the best man that ever
trod the globe. To-day, as of old, error and evil again
make common cause against the exponents of truth.
(Saviour's prediction)
The "man of sorrows" best understood the nothingness
of material life and intelligence and the mighty actuality
of all-inclusive God, good. These were
the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or
Christian Science, which armed him with Love. The highest
earthly representative of God, speaking of human
ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his
disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time:
"He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also;" and "These signs shall follow them that believe."
(Defamatory accusations)
The accusations of the Pharisees were as self-contradictory
as their religion. The bigot, the debauchee,
the hypocrite, called Jesus a glutton
and a wine-bibber. They said: "He casteth out devils
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