Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
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is the new understanding of spiritual Love. It gives all
for Christ, or Truth. It blesses its enemies, heals the 33:24 sick, casts out error, raises the dead from trespasses and sins, and preaches the gospel to the poor, the meek in heart. Incisive questions 33:27 Christians, are you drinking his cup? Have you shared the blood of the New Covenant, the persecutions which attend a new and higher understand- 33:30 ing of God? If not, can you then say that you have commemorated Jesus in his cup? Are all who eat bread and drink wine in memory of Jesus willing 34:1 truly to drink his cup, take his cross, and leave all for the Christ-principle? Then why ascribe this inspira- 34:3 tion to a dead rite, instead of showing, by casting out error and making the body "holy, acceptable unto God," that Truth has come to the understanding? If Christ, 34:6 Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no other com- memoration is requisite, for demonstration is Immanuel, or _God with us_; and if a friend be with us, why need we 34:9 memorials of that friend? Millennial glory If all who ever partook of the sacrament had really commemorated the sufferings of Jesus and drunk of 34:12 his cup, they would have revolutionized the world. If all who seek his commemoration |
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