CHRIST. 



wife of our legal father and material father. Never 

 mind, we will adjust the matter. Father in this case 

 can be guardian, just neglecting the charms of a loving 

 wife. Our cause is just. 



Humanity is the stake. On the outcome of this 

 issue remains the future welfare of mankind. Winning 

 we have personal liberty for all men. Losing, we have 

 slavery to nearly all mankind. 



Christ takes command under the above conditions, 

 as a political leader of his nation, and in fact a politi- 

 cal leader of human liberty. He knows he is not a god 

 and would gladly make it known to his followers if he 

 dare do so. He knows he dare not make it known, be- 

 cause his cause, which is human liberty, will be lost 

 when the truth is known. He must remain a repre- 

 sentative of the prophecy in order to rally his followers, 

 and to rally men who will come after he has passed 

 away. He knows the battle is one of years, perhaps ages, 

 but he knows it will win because the ranks of the enemy 

 will fall in and take up the cause of the gods. The 

 god belief being instilled in ages of progenitors, and 

 the soldier will inherit the weakness. 



Christ knew his maker; he knew that mankind 

 was the means of carrying out a greater cause. He knew 

 that union by just treatment to all was the law of the 

 maker. He would gladly have rallied his followers un- 

 der a truthful heading, but the time was not ripe for the 

 carrying out of truth. Truth would have been shunned 

 as the rattlesnake ; it would have had no meaning with- 

 in the times. Consequently whatever falsehood, al- 



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