Christian science healing : its principles and practice; with full explanations for home students / by Frances Lord.

  • Henrietta Frances Lord
Date:
1888
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    freedom from agitation in the presence of temptations, gentleness, shame, all genuine repentance must be preceded by shame, freedom from gesticulation, power, to overcome opposition, forgiveness, absence of anger even when injured ; this distinguishes it from ' want of anger;' patience, purity, want of desire to cause harm, want of over- esteem of self, are the God-like attributes wherewith a mortal is born. Purity means both mental and bodily cleanliness. External im- purity can be removed by water, and other purifiers ; the mind also re- quires purification whenever anger is felt, or a falsehood is told, or the faults of another are needlessly disclosed ; whenever anything is said or done for the purpose of flattery, or anyone is deceived by the in- sincerity of a speech or an act. Habits of internal cleanliness should be cultivated with even greater care than those of outward purity. The agent of internal purification is shame and repentance. Enter- taining anger or hatred is more loathsome than falling into a sewer ; and self-gratulation and self-praise are as offensive as foul sores. Ostentation — religious and worldly,—egotism, anger, sarcasm, false knowledge, perverted ideas of right and wrong, truth and falsehood, Spirit and matter, are the Demoniac attributes wherewith a mortal is born. God-like attributes are for liberation, spoken of as ' the fruits of the spirit' by Saint Paul (Gal. v. 22, 23). Against such there is no law, because they lead to liberation ; and Demoniac for continued bondage. Demoniac creatures do not know what to do, and what not to do, [having-] neither purity nor right behaviour; there is no truth in them. They call the creatures truthless, that is, as they are deceptive, so is the whole race, they think; and lawless, asserting there is neither good nor evil, and all Scriptures are pro- duced by fools and knaves, and God-less. asserting there is no conscious cause or righteous Judge in the Universe. The Demoniac attributes are the ' lusts of the flesh' against which Saint Paul warns (Gal. v. 19, 21) : They which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.