Editorial July 31, 1902 Issue

The Passing of Error

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When we realize that Jesus' life was strictly scientific, that it disclosed the movements of divine Mind, we begin to understand how vitally significant his every word and act should be to us.

He bore witness that Principle does nothing needlessly, and says nothing amiss, when he declared that for "every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement." With this in mind, the story of Jairus' daughter has become, not only more suggestive, but more mandatory.

When Jesus came to the ruler's house, he found all the paraphernalia of mourning which the customs and requirements of death could muster. The "minstrels and the people were making," no doubt, a great "noise;" but he reckoned it all as the mere vagary and presumption of error, and in a tone of authority he said, "Give place!" No declaration of death was tolerable to the Life that was in Him, and when these false witnesses were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.

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