Referring to the materiality of the age, Jesus said: "The time Cometh and now is that they who worship the Father shall worship him in Spirit and in Truth." Again, foreseeing the persecution that must attend the introduction of this science, he said: "The time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think he doeth God service." "And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father or me." In other words, because they are ignorant of the divine Principle of loving one's neighbor as one's self. Their Father on earth and in heaven, is a personality instead of Principle; they are ignorant of the origin of man, his nature and true existence. The world of error is blind to the Truth of man, and the world of sense to the life that is Soul. Jesus was neither understood in his origin, his nature, or works; not one component part of his being did the world of sense get right. Even his righteousness and purity hindered not the saying, He is Beelzebub, the chiefest of sinners, a glutton and the friend of the impure. Christian martyr of the nineteenth century, does it wrong thee one half as much? Then remember, it is enough that you be found worthy to unloose the sandals of thy Master's faith. To conclude, that persecution for righteousness' sake belongs to the past, and Christianity to-day is at peace with the world, honored by sects and societies, is to mistake its very nature. History will repeat itself; the trials of prophet, disciple, and apostle, those of whom." the earth was not worthy," await, in some form, the pioneers of Truth.
"If man followed the line of the true Spiritual ministry of man, with never so little courage, he would soon find that it would give him less trouble, and take less time to work a miracle, than to learn, in all its details, the least of the sciences with which men are busied, and to which they consecrate the sweat of their brows."
