Clad with divine might, he was ready to stem the tide of Judaism, and prove his power, derived from Spirit, to [15] be supreme; lay himself as a lamb upon the altar of materialism, and therefrom rise to his nativity in Spirit. The corporeal Jesus bore our infirmities, and through his stripes we are healed. He was the Way-shower, and suffered in the flesh, showing mortals how to escape from [20] the sins of the flesh. There was no incorporeal Jesus of Nazareth. The spiritual man, or Christ, was after the similitude of the Father, without corporeality or finite mind. Materiality, worldliness, human pride, or self-will, by [25] demoralizing his motives and Christlikeness, would have dethroned his power as the Christ. To carry out his holy purpose, he must be oblivious of human self. Of the lineage of David, like him he went forth, simple [30] as the shepherd boy, to disarm the Goliath. Panoplied in the strength of an exalted hope, faith, and understand- [Page 163.] ing, he sought to conquer the three-in-one of error: the [1] world, the flesh, and the devil. Three years he went about doing good. He had for thirty years been preparing to heal and teach divinely; but his three-years mission was a marvel of glory: its [5] chaplet, a grave to mortal sense dishonored—from which sprang a sublime and everlasting victory! He who dated time, the Christian era, and spanned eternity, was the meekest man on earth. He healed and taught by the wayside, in humble homes: to arrant [10] hypocrite and to dull disciples he explained the Word of God, which has since ripened into interpretation through Science. His words were articulated in the language of a de- clining race, and committed to the providence of God. [15] In no one thing seemed he less human and more divine than in his unfaltering faith in the immortality of Truth. Referring to this, he said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away!” and they have not: they still live; and are the basis of divine [20] liberty, the medium of Mind, the hope of the race. Only three years a personal Saviour! yet the founda- tions he laid are as eternal as Truth, the chief corner-stone. After his brief brave struggle, and the crucifixion of [25] the corporeal man, the incorporeal Saviour—the Christ or spiritual idea which leadeth into all Truth—must needs come in Christian Science, demonstrating the spir- itual healing of body and mind. This idea or divine essence was, and is, forever about [30] the Father’s business; heralding the Principle of health, holiness, and immortality. [Page 164.]