The truth uttered and lived by Jesus, who passed on and left to mortals the rich legacy of what he said and did, makes his followers the heirs to his example; but they can neither appreciate nor appropriate his treasures [20] of Truth and Love, until lifted to these by their own growth and experiences. His goodness and grace pur- chased the means of mortals’ redemption from sin; but, they never paid the price of sin. This cost, none but the sinner can pay; and accordingly as this account is settled [25] with divine Love, is the sinner ready to avail himself of the rich blessings flowing from the teaching, example, and suffering of our Master. The secret stores of wisdom must be discovered, their treasures reproduced and given to the world, before man [30] can truthfully conclude that he has been found in the order, mode, and virgin origin of man according to divine [Page 166.] Science, which alone demonstrates the divine Principle [1] and spiritual idea of being. The monument whose finger points upward, commemorates the earthly life of a martyr; but this is not all of the philanthropist, hero, and Christian. The Truth he [5] has taught and spoken lives, and moves in our midst a divine afflatus. Thus it is that the ideal Christ—or impersonal infancy, manhood, and womanhood of Truth and Love—is still with us. And what of _this_ child?—“For unto us a child _is_ [10] born, unto us a son _is_ given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder.” This child, or spiritual idea, has evolved a more ready ear for the overture of angels and the scientific under- standing of Truth and Love. When Christ, the incor- [15] poreal idea of God, was nameless, and a Mary knew not how to declare its spiritual origin, the idea of man was not understood. The Judæan religion even required the Virgin-mother to go to the temple and be purified, for having given birth to the corporeal child Jesus, whose [20] origin was more spiritual than the senses could inter- pret. Like the leaven that a certain woman hid in three measures of meal, the Science of God and the spiritual idea, named in this century Christian Science, is leaven- ing the lump of human thought, until the whole shall [25] be leavened and all materialism disappear. This action of the divine energy, even if not acknowledged, has come to be seen as diffusing richest blessings. This spiritual idea, or Christ, entered into the minutiæ of the life of the personal Jesus. It made him an honest man, [30] a good carpenter, and a good man, before it could make him the glorified. [Page 167.] The material questions at this age on the reappearing [1] of the infantile thought of God’s man, are after the man- ner of a mother in the flesh, though their answers per- tain to the spiritual idea, as in Christian Science:— Is he deformed? [5] He is wholly symmetrical; the one altogether lovely. Is the babe a son, or daughter? Both son and daughter: even the compound idea of all that resembles God.