In the Gospel record we read that at a certain time after the Resurrection, when Jesus was walking with two of his disciples, "their eyes were holden, that they should not know him." Then the disciples, whose mortal vision had been glorified by seeing the Master raise the dead and walk the wave, lost, for the first time, their understanding that all was Mind, and were withheld, apparently by some power, from realizing that they were in the actual presence of their Master.
With vows of love and fealty yet warm upon their lips, with their hearts still thrilling with the memory and joy of his mighty demonstrations, Animal Magnetism nevertheless held them, for the hour, in such complete mastery, that every attempt to spiritualize their sense of Jesus was in vain. They were in his very presence, yet so many leagues away, talking with him, yet knowing him not! Oh the darkness and gloom of that hour! What an awful contrast to those peaceful and happy days in Galilee, when he was in their midst, healing and teaching!
Christian Scientists of today, seeking to bring out the same Truth as did those chosen ones, do you expect to be spared a like experience? The world, the flesh, and the devil, in all their arguments and claims, are to be overcome ere the race is finished, and only he who endures to the end will be saved. It is vain to plead for more time in which to demonstrate your mastery over error,— idle to turn into conciliatory bypaths, instead of keeping on through the strait gate and narrow way of Truth.
