Article June 1, 1899 Issue

Ingratitude

BY G. W. DUFFUS.

If a person who had been rescued from great peril by another person, should fail to appreciate the kindness shown, should repudiate the obligation to be grateful, and instead should vilify his rescuer, the world would stamp such an one an ingrate, some would go so far as to say, he was not fit company for man or beast; but Scientists should know that one who, to sense, manifests in so marked degree, lack of understanding and of love, was not manifesting his true self, but is allowing animal magnetism to becloud his consciousness; and that the real man, God's man made in the image and likeness of Him who is Omnipresent Good, does not speak in the words of error uttered by such a one.

We should regret that our brother had turned his face away from the Light temporarily, for we should know that he was punishing himself by abiding in darkness; for as a plant, which is a manifestation of Life, cannot thrive in darkness, so man, who is a higher manifestation of that Life, cannot thrive without the sunlight of God, Love. And as the eye, denied beneficent light, to mortal sense suffers pain when brought again into it, so mortal man, who shuts out the divine Light, must suffer in contrition when he returns to the intensity of that Light.

The following extract from Science and Health, page 136, shows how mortal man must pay the full penalty before he atones for the evil he has done : "In trying to undo the errors of sense one must pay, here or hereafter, the utmost farthing, until the body is fully brought into subjection to Spirit."

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