Chapter II - Atonement And Eucharist
Sin and penalty
40:1
evil confers no pleasure, they turn from it. Remove error
evil confers no pleasure, they turn from it. Remove error
from thought, and it will not appear in effect. The ad-
vanced thinker and devout Christian, perceiv-
ing the scope and tendency of Christian healing
and its Science, will support them. Another will say:
"Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient
season I will call for thee."
40:8
Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted
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 is 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?
Suffering inevitable
40:17
Was it just for Jesus to suffer? No; but it was
Was it just for Jesus to suffer? No; but it was
inevitable, for not otherwise could he show us the way
and the power of Truth. 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
Truth and Love.
Service and worship
40:25
Our heavenly Father, divine Love, demands that all
Our heavenly Father, divine Love, demands that all
men should follow the example of our Master and his
apostles and not merely worship his personal-
ity. It is sad that the phrase divine service
has come so generally to mean public worship instead of
daily deeds.
Within the veil
40:31
The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed,
The nature of Christianity is peaceful and blessed,
but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of