Chapter II - Imposition and Demonstration
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them; but stir the evil sensual mind, and worse than
them; but stir the evil sensual mind, and worse than
the deadly Upas are the plagues it emits. Those who
gain the essential points of the science of Life will suf-
fer from the sensual world more than even the primitive
prophets and disciples did; but the science of being
supports its followers amid shoals and quicksands.
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Spirituality is the only Christianity; and its basis is,
Spirituality is the only Christianity; and its basis is,
"to be absent from the body and present with the
Lord;" sensuality is personality ever present with the
body. We have already sufficient professions of good-
ness without the Spirit: too many religions and not
enough Christianity is the genius of the age. Man
knows already too well how "to make long prayers, to
be heard for his much speaking," and to enlarge the
pharisaical borders, to steal in private and give in pub-
lic, but this is political, not Christian economy. What
we want is, "Christ and Him crucified," in other words,
Truth and the cross-bearing that attends it, to make
mankind better.
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Because a man has uttered the law and ten command-
Because a man has uttered the law and ten command-
ments to fashionable audiences some quarter of a cen-
tury, it does not follow that he can demonstrate the
Christianity of the prophets, and of Jesus who cast out
error and healed the sick. Sometimes people resort to
a cup of tea or coffee to help them preach, as if matter
was superior to Truth in this direction. Is the Truth
we utter matter, or God? and if the latter, "giving
does not impoverish nor withholding enrich;" have we
less of the Spirit that is God for having given utterance
to it, and is matter or Spirit our strength? Because a
man has obtained a high social and public position, are
we to conclude he must be a good man? The soft palm
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upturned to a lordly salary, and architectural power –
upturned to a lordly salary, and architectural power –
making dome and spire tremulous with beauty, that
turns the poor and stranger from the gate, shuts the
door on Christianity. It is a skeleton of religion that
requires a doctor of physic to save the body and a doc-
tor of divinity to save what? immortal Soul that is
already saved. This is not having "Christ in you the
hope of glory," nor does it cast out devils and heal the
sick; the manger and cross tell in vain their story to
pride and prejudice. Taking wealth, popularity and
sensuality by the right hand, takes God by the left,
and palsies that hand, making moral lepers instead of
Christians. Hear our Master's words on this subject,
"Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Ministers should
make the pulpit the rostrum of Truth, whipping creeds
and pride out of their synagogues to let in humility and
the science of God, using those strong arguments, cords,
that Jesus twisted together to scourge out of synagogues
the money changers and make them temples of Truth.
The prophet of to-day beholds in the spiritual horizon
the bow of promise; the demonstration of Christianity
that our Master gave, is again required, and no other
"sign shall be given you." Christianity brings with it
a phenomenon that will be misinterpreted by the mate-
rial age in which it appears, because it is the phenom-
enon of Soul, and not matter, that personal sense can-
not comprehend, but when spiritually discerned will
be found to destroy sickness, sin and death. Creeds,
doctrines and beliefs do not express it, much less can
they demonstrate it; we must understand God to de-
monstrate Truth. Jesus of Nazareth, the fittest teacher
of mankind, possessed this understanding; but the