origin was more spiritual than the senses could inter-

pret. Like the leaven that a certain woman hid in three

measures of meal, the Science of God and the spiritual

idea, named in this century Christian Science, is leaven-

ing the lump of human thought, until the whole shall [25]

be leavened and all materialism disappear. This action

of the divine energy, even if not acknowledged, has

come to be seen as diffusing richest blessings. This

spiritual idea, or Christ, entered into the minutiæ of the

life of the personal Jesus. It made him an honest man, [30]