Article October 25, 1900 Issue

The Example for All

Lancaster (N. H.) Gazette

The life of Jesus Christ furnishes the example which includes every good toward which mankind is striving. What is that for which men are directly or indirectly aiming? It is to be free from evil, to put aside limitations,—sin, sickness, and death. All that men count undesirable and fear is included in these three words.

What all men desire, Jesus attained. The example of Jesus teaches how to conquer sickness, sin, and death. His work was wholly practical. He taught no forms, mysteries, ceremonies, or speculative doctrines. His plan of salvation was not to teach men a theory of life, but to free them from sin, sickness, and death. And his own life-work was an illustration showing how this freedom is to be attained.

How then—by what method—did Jesus overcome sin, sickness, and death? By perceiving their nature. His insight revealed them as errors and not truths belonging to God's creation. This understanding exposed their illusory character and they disappeared as a lie disappears when it is seen to be false. In this connection the Master also disregarded and exposed the falsity of the so-called laws of the physical realm, for he finally rose above them all. He healed sickness and sin at one and the same time, those absent as well as those present. "I have given you an example." he said, "that ye should do as I have done to you." He did not aim to reconcile men to their hard fate in sickness and death, nor did he try to make them feel comfortable therein.

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