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from his destroyers. The basic error is mortal mind.
Hatred inflames the brutal propensities. The indulgence
of evil motives and aims makes any man, who is above the
lowest type of manhood, a hopeless sufferer.
(Mental conspirators)
Christian Science commands man to master the propensities, - to
hold hatred in abeyance with kindness,
to conquer lust with chastity, revenge with
charity, and to overcome deceit with
honesty. Choke these errors in their early stages, if you
would not cherish an army of conspirators against
health, happiness, and success. They will deliver you
to the judge, the arbiter of truth against error. The
judge will deliver you to justice, and the sentence of
the moral law will be executed upon mortal mind and
body. Both will be manacled until the last farthing
is paid, - until you have balanced your account with
God. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap." The good man finally can overcome his fear of
sin. This is sin's necessity, - to destroy itself. Immortal
man demonstrates the government of God, good,
in which is no power to sin.
(Cumulative repentance)
It were better to be exposed to every plague on earth
than to endure the cumulative effects of a guilty
conscience. The abiding consciousness of wrongdoing
tends to destroy the ability to do right.
If sin is not regretted and is not lessening, then it is
hastening on to physical and moral doom. You are conquered
by the moral penalties you incur and the ills they
bring. The pains of sinful sense are less harmful than its
pleasures. Belief in material suffering causes mortals to
retreat from their error, to flee from body to Spirit, and
to appeal to divine sources outside of themselves.
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