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Rh all fear, shall you turn away from this divine Principle to graven images? Remember the Scripture: —

“But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

“And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

“The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

“And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites.”

One mercilessly assails me for opposing the subtle lie, others charge upon me with full-fledged invective for, as they say, having too much charity; but neither moves me from the path made luminous by divine Love.

In my public works I lay bare the ability, in belief, of evil to break the Decalogue, — to murder, steal, commit adultery, and so on. Those who deny my wisdom or right to expose error, are either willing participants in wrong, afraid of its supposed power, or ignorant of it.

The notion that one is covering iniquity by asserting its nothingness, is a fault of zealots, who, like Peter, sleep when the Watcher bids them watch, and when the hour of trial comes would cut off somebody's ears. Such people say, “Would you have me get out of a burning house, or stay in it?”

I would have you already out, and know that you are out; also, to remember the Scripture concerning those who do evil that good may come, — “whose damnation is just;” and that whoso departeth from divine Science, seeking power or good aside from God, has done himself harm.