Truth were so often persecuted unto death, that at length the word martyr was narrowed in its significance, and came to mean always one who dies for his convictions. A new faith in Christ, Truth, caused men to be burned, and the rights of man to be christened with the gallows. History repeats itself in the suffering of the just for the unjust. Does God therefore overlook sin? Does not sin necessitate suffering as much to-day as ever before? They should suffer who sin. “Whatsoever measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted it. Science removes penalty, only by first removing the sin which incurs the penalty. Another's suffering cannot lessen our own liability. Did the martyrdom of Savonarola make the crimes of his implacable enemies any the less?
The God-inspired walk calmly on, though it be with bleeding footprints, and hereafter they shall reap what they have sown. The pampered hypocrite may have a flowery pathway here, but he has the sharper thorns hereafter. This is my sense of divine pardon, or 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.”
The demonstration that Jesus gave of Truth and Love, by casting out error and healing the sick, did all for the world that can be done. No ancient school of philosophy ever taught or demonstrated the Divine Science of Life, Truth, and Love. In the Christian Church this demonstration of healing was early lost, about three centuries after the crucifixion.
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