The life, words, and works of the Founder of Christianity, Christ Jesus, furnish the best possible example of proper propaganda. He realized that, because of its divine source, his message of salvation from material beliefs and from all evil would bless universally. Because he realized the love which is the reflection of divine Love, he shared his redemptive spiritual message with ignorancebound humanity. His sermons carried the appealing attractiveness of good, peace, happiness, harmony, because his message was, "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Then he authenticated his preaching by his practice or demonstration, wherein and whereby the sick were healed, the sinners forsook their sins and were forgiven, the sorrowing were truly comforted, beliefs of limitation were reversed, and death was shown to be powerless. After Christ Jesus had thus proved that "the kingdom of heaven is at hand," he proclaimed that the blessings of God may be realized by all who learn of God's law of life and harmony and abide by it.
Jesus drew around him a group of disciples or students to whom he gave spiritual instruction so that they likewise could spread the good news of the kingdom of heaven. Later he appointed seventy others and sent them forth to propagate or disseminate the healing word of Truth. After Christ Jesus had overcome that phase of the human belief of life in matter called death, with and for himself, he instructed his disciples. "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, ... teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you," which injunction was accompanied by the comforting and assuring promise, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."
After his conversion to Christianity Paul became an untiring and effective propagandist of the truth, healing the sick and preaching the gospel throughout Greece, Asia Minor, Rome, and, as is believed by many, even in certain distant islands. The epistles of Paul, together with the Gospels and other writings of the disciples which deal with the experiences and teachings of Christ Jesus, as found in our New Testament, constitute the means by which the word of Truth expressed-in the Bible has been taken practically to "all nations," in accord with Jesus' command.
