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Show CHRIST1ANSCIENCE The following are among the j Scriptural references: Have I any; pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God; and not that he should turn from his ways and live? Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely ! live, he shall not die. For I have no pleasure in the death of him I that ditth, saith the Lord God:' wherefore turn yourself, and live. e. ( Kzek. IS; 23, 2S, 32). j And among the txerpts from; Science and Health with Key t t:ie Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, are these: We should relieve j our minus from the depressing! thought that we have transgressed transgress-ed a material law and must of necessity pay the penalty. Let us reassure ourselves with the law of Love. God never punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue, cold, heat, contagion. If man seems to incur the penalty through matter, this is a belief of mortal mind, not an enactment of wisdom, and man has only to enter his protest against this belief in order to annul an-nul it. (p. 3S4: 3-12). Let us re-1 member that the eternal law of right, though it can never annul the law which makes sin its own executioner, exempts man from all penalties but those due for wrongdoing. wrong-doing. (3S5; 11-14). |