ce, then in all probability you are a Christian. To
be a Christian is to be a follower of the _teachings_ of Jesus, the
Christ; to live in harmony with the same laws he lived in harmony with:
in brief, _to live his life_. The great central fact of his teaching
was this conscious union of man with the Father. It was the complete
realization of this oneness with the Father on his part that made Jesus
the Christ. It was through this that he attained to the power he
attained to, that he spake as never man spake.

He never claimed for himself anything that he did not claim equally for
all mankind. "The mighty works performed by Jesus were not
exceptional, they were the natural and necessary concomitants of his
state; he declared them to be in accordance with unvarying order; he
spoke of them as no unique performances, but as the outcome of a state
to which all might attain if they chose. As a teacher and demonstrator
of truth, according to his own confession, he did nothing for the
purpose of proving his solitary divinity. . . . The life and triumph
of Jesus formed an epoch in the history of the race. His coming and
victory marked a new era in human affairs; he introduced a new because
a more complete ideal to the earth, and when his three most intimate
companions saw in some measure what the new life really signified, they
fell to the earth, speechless with awe and admiration."

By coming into this complete realization of his oneness with the
Father, by mastering, absolutely mastering every circumstance that
crossed his path through life, even to the death of the body, and by
pointing out to us the great laws which are the same for us as they
were for him, he has given us an ideal of life, an ideal for us to
attain to _here and now_, that we could not have without him. _One has
conquered first; all may conquer afterward_. By completely realizing
it first for himself, and then by pointing out to others this great law
of the at-one-ment with the Father, he has become probably the world's
greatest saviour.

Don't mistake his mere person for his life and his teachings, an error
that has been made in connection with most all great teachers by their
disciples over and over again. And if you have been among the number
who have been preaching a dead Christ, then for humanity's sake, for
Christ's sake, for God's sake, and I speak most reverently, don't steal
the people's time any longer, don't waste your own time more,