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Rh admit that evil confers no pleasure, they turn from it. Remove error from thought, and it will not appear in

effect. The advanced thinker and devout Christian, perceiving its scope and tendency, will support Christian healing and its Science. Others will say: “Go thy way for this time; when we have a more convenient season we will call for thee.”

Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted it. Science removes the penalty, only by first removing the sin which incurs the penalty. This is my sense of divine pardon, which I understand to mean God's method of destroying sin. If the saying be true, “While there's life there's hope,” its opposite is also true, While there's sin there's doom. Another's suffering cannot lessen our own liability. Did the martyrdom of Savonarola make the crimes of his implacable enemies less criminal?

Was it just for Jesus to suffer? No; but it was inevitable, for not otherwise could he show forth the

power of Truth and Love. If a career so great and good as that of Jesus could not avert a felon's fate, lesser apostles of Truth may endure human brutality without murmuring, rejoicing to enter into fellowship with him, through the triumphal arch of immortality.

Our heavenly Father, the divinely intelligent Principle of Jesus' demonstration, demands that all men should

follow the example of our Master and his apostles, and not merely worship his personality. It is sad that the phrase divine service has come so generally to mean public worship, instead of daily deeds.