Chapter V - Prayer and Atonement
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cast out devils and healed the sick. The only civility
cast out devils and healed the sick. The only civility
Truth exchanges with error is "Get behind me, satan."
There is too much animal courage, and not sufficient
moral courage in Society. Christians take up arms
against error at home and abroad, grapple with sin in
themselves and others, and continue this warfare until
they have finished their course, and thenceforth receive
its reward.
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If you have triumphed sufficiently over the errors of
If you have triumphed sufficiently over the errors of
personal sense for Soul to hold the balance of power in
your being, you will loathe sin and rebuke it, under
whatever mask it appears; and you can bless your en-
emies only in this way, but they may not so construe it.
We cannot choose but work out our own salvation on the
Principle Jesus taught and demonstrated, viz., casting
out devils, healing the sick, and preaching the gospel
to the poor. A moral coward is unfit to bear the stand-
ard of Truth, and God will never place it in his hands.
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A member of the Methodist Church once said to us,
A member of the Methodist Church once said to us,
"I hope, when you write your work on science, you
will dwell much on the atonement." After reading
these pages, if the "arm of the Lord is revealed" to
that mind, anew she will commence her own work, and
with the unction of primitive Christianity, heal herself
and others, and thus gain the liberty of the sons of
God. This is regeneration, and to have part in the
atonement, and to understand wherefore Jesus suffered
and triumphed. But Truth, lifting its voice above
'ology and 'ism, and requiring a reconstruction of man,
must be persecuted, and those not having touched its
garments and felt in their body it has healed them,
will persecute it.
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If all those partaking of the sacrament intended to
If all those partaking of the sacrament intended to
commemorate the sufferings of Jesus, had drank "his
cup," they would have revolutionized the world; or if
all who partake of these symbols to-day, were Chris-
tians, taking up their cross, healing the sick, casting out
error and preaching Christ, Truth, to the poor, it
would establish the millennium.
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But all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of
But all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of
Christ, are not ready or willing to drink his cup, and
to leave all for Christ, the Truth and Life, that is
God. Then wherefore ascribe to this willingness with
a dead rite, before showing forth in your body, that
the Truth has come to your understanding, that heals
the sick, and makes the body holy and acceptable,
that Paul said, was "our only reasonable service."
And if Christ, Truth, has come to us in demonstra-
tion, no commemoration is requisite, for it is "God
with us."
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"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and
"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and
blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples,
and said, 'Take eat, this is my body.' And he took the
cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
'Drink ye all of it.'"
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The glorious sense or proof of that hour is lost spirit-
The glorious sense or proof of that hour is lost spirit-
ually, when confined to a literal sense, or the use of
bread and wine. The disciples were eating when he
prayed and gave them bread. Now this would have
been improper in a literal sense; but in its spiritual, it
was natural and beautiful. Jesus prayed; was "ab-
sent from the body and present with the Lord." His
followers silent, humble, patient, self-sacrificing, and
strong, anticipating the approaching hour of their Mas-