Jesus was the great transmitter to humanity of a knowledge of the power of divine healing; he never specialized.  He never said:  “I have cured your liver complaint, or your lungs are healed,” etc., according to the ailment of the person seeking his aid.  He only told them:  “Thy [own] faith hath made thee whole.”  It was spoken of God long ago:  “He healeth all our infirmities.”  The quality and the amount of personal magnetism possessed by the healer—­the transmitter of the divine healing—­does make a vast difference in the results of such efforts.  The “Nazarene” was devoid of egotism, and selfishness, and his desire to heal and bless humanity was with him an overwhelming passion.

That Jesus knew the value of right physical habits is evidenced by the way he had of admonishing his patients to “go and sin no more,” that is, stop breaking nature’s hygienic laws.  He had all along told them that right thinking was necessary to right doing.

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The transcendentalism of one age, shorn of the peculiar shading given to it by the individuality of the mind through which it first manifests itself, becomes the hard “common sense” of the next.

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What is Truth?  Truth is God.  God is Truth.  Nothing in the universe could exist for one instant unless it had in it some faint intuition of truth, and it is this that we are here to discover.

SURPLUS.

Human beings slaughtered on battle fields, or carried off by pestilence and famine by thousands, or perishing by accidents by sea or by land by hundreds, are individually dear and useful, and are mourned; but in the great aggregate of moving life on this planet, they count as surplus.

ANALYSIS OF THE “LORD’S PRAYER.”

How shall we pray?  To whom shall we pray?  Shall we pray at all?  These are unsettled questions in the minds of many good persons who are striving to perceive the highest truth and to be guided thereby.  The tests that have been applied to the usefulness of prayer by a large class of religious people have been, for ages, purely materialistic.  The Lord has been importuned for the bestowal of personal favors, from the manufacturing of the right kind of weather to the slaying of enemies, and from the righteous putting down of infidels, to the spending of dollars with which to build high steeples.  Then, too, God has had the benefit of the very best advice concerning the way He ought to deal with the heathen, how He should treat sinners of every sort, so as to show himself equal to managing his fractious subjects, and, finally, how to carry things along generally after such a fashion as should win and hold the respect of his earthly advisers.