again forgiven; but Jesus said to disease: "Come out of him, and enter no
more into him." He said also: "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see
death;" and "Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in
heaven." The misinterpretation of such passages has retarded the progress
of Christianity and the spiritualization of the race.

A magistrate's pardon may encourage a criminal to repeat the offense;
because _forgiveness_, in the popular sense of the word, can neither
extinguish a crime nor the motives leading to it. The belief in sin--its
pleasure, pain, or power--must suffer, until it is self-destroyed.
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."




IS THERE ANY SUCH THING AS SIN?


Frequently when I touch this subject my meaning is ignorantly or
maliciously misconstrued. Christian Science Mind-healing lifts with a
steady arm, and cleaves sin with a broad battle-axe. It gives the lie to
sin, in the spirit of Truth; but other theories make sin true. Jesus
declared that the devil was "a liar, and the father of it." A lie is
negation,--_alias_ nothing, or the opposite of something. Good is great and
real. Hence its opposite, named _evil_, must be small and unreal. When this
sense is attained, we shall no longer be the servants of sin, and shall
cease to love it.

The domination of good destroys the sense of evil. To illustrate: It seems
a great evil to belie and belittle Christian Science, and persecute a Cause