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The passing from human sight of so holy a man as Christ Jesus no doubt offered opportunity for friend and foe to indulge in damaging speculation concerning the import of his life and work. The twenty-fourth chapter of Luke's Gospel contains the record of two men who at the time of Jesus' resurrection were walking towards Emmaus.

When we keep looking to God, with our eyes fixed on Truth, our lives are transformed, our difficulties fade away, our fears grow less. When we can be still, can quiet fears and doubts, cease from outlining, and look up, knowing that God governs every event of our lives; when we cease wondering when the answer will come and how it will happen, and trust His constant care, then we begin to realize the truth of Jesus' words ( John 14:10 ), "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

A parable is related in the eighteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel which is calculated to quicken the student's spiritual resolve and ensure healing through a more persistent application of the truth. Jesus tells of a judge in a certain city who was visited by a widow seeking to be avenged of her adversary.

Darkness was over all the land, the light of the world was temporarily eclipsed, the earth trembled, and the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom. There had been a crucifixion.

The Christ, Truth, entering into the experience of mankind, constitutes the only way of salvation from all evil, and is the paramount need of the entire world, since it offers surcease from suffering as well as the solution of every human problem. It lifts men and women from the material, bestial, selfish, narrow, egotistical, and limited beliefs of the human mind into an apprehension of man's true sonship with his Father-Mother God.

Christendom freely acknowledges the primacy and supremacy of God, but equally freely it seems to ignore the practicability of demonstration. Too often passive resignation to the besetments of evil has been the rule, and, disregarding the intrepid examples in the Scriptures culminating in the unparalleled demonstrations of divine presence and power by Christ Jesus, men have placed both effective godliness and oppressive evil in the domain of mystery.

In writing to the Hebrews (chapters 3 and 4) , Paul three times called attention to the words in the ninety-fifth Psalm: "To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness. " To those who feel that they cannot hear God's voice, as well as to those who have a sense of impaired hearing, these words come to arouse thought and bring assurance of man's indestructible hearing.

The revelation, understanding, and acknowledgment of true selfhood are indispensable to the progressive unfoldment of the student of Christian Science. "God is All-in-all.

Of all the claims of mortal mind which hold humanity in bondage, there is none from which it is in greater need of liberating than the belief of separation. But there is complete liberation from this cruel lie when one awakens to the great truth that God and man are inseparable.

In the first three Gospels and in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (chapter 11), simple accounts of the Lord's last supper are given. The Master's offering of bread and wine as a symbol of true spiritual substance and divine inspiration became the basis of a ceremony which Christians have observed ever since.