The meek demonstrator of good, the highest instruc- 49:15 tor and friend of man, met his earthly fate alone with God. No human eye was there to pity, no arm to save. Forsaken by all whom he had 49:18 blessed, this faithful sentinel of God at the highest post of power, charged with the grandest trust of heaven, was ready to be transformed by the renewing 49:21 of the infinite Spirit. He was to prove that the Christ is not subject to material conditions, but is above the reach of human wrath, and is able, through Truth, 49:24 Life, and Love, to triumph over sin, sickness, death, and the grave. Cruel contumely The priests and rabbis, before whom he had meekly 49:27 walked, and those to whom he had given the highest proofs of divine power, mocked him on the cross, saying derisively, "He saved others; 49:30 himself he cannot save." These scoffers, who turned "aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High," esteemed Jesus as "stricken, smitten of God." 50:1 "He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." 50:3 "Who shall declare his generation?" Who shall decide what truth and love are? A cry of despair The last supreme moment of mockery, desertion, tor- 50:6 ture, added to an overwhelming sense of the magnitude of his work, wrung from Jesus' lips the awful cry, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?" 50:9 This despairing appeal, if made to a human parent, would impugn the justice and love of a father who could with- hold a clear token of his presence to sustain and bless so 50:12 faithful a son. The appeal of Jesus was made both to his divine Principle, the God who is Love, and to himself, Love's pure idea. Had Life, Truth, and Love forsaken 50:15 him in his highest demonstration? This was a startling question. No! They must abide in him and he in them, or that hour would be shorn of its mighty blessing for the 50:18 human race. Divine Science misunderstood If his full recognition of eternal Life had for a mo- ment given way before the evidence of the bodily senses, 50:21 what would his accusers have said? Even what they did say, - that Jesus' teachings were false, and that all evidence of their cor- 50:24 rectness was destroyed by his death. But this saying could not make it so. The real pillory