Article April 5, 1900 Issue

"Blessed are the Pure in Heart"

Elinor F. Edwards

Some clergymen having published statements peculiarly untrue regarding Christian Science, the following letter appeared in proclamation of the Truth and was published in the Berlin (Ont.) News-Record.

Editor Record:—When the great Teacher of Christianity lived and taught upon earth, his sinless purity did not prevent the hypocritical Pharisee and letter-perfect doctors of the law from saying that he was no better than the publicans and sinners with whom he associated.

It was a lofty standard of purity which was held up by Jesus, dazzlingly so to those whose hidden life was full of corruption—"dead men's bones;" for Jesus plainly taught that purity is to be measured not only by outward deeds, but that the thought, or source of all action, must be pure as well, and that even to look with desire on that which is unlawful is to break the commandment. The emphasis of his teaching was upon pureness in the thought, "for from within, and out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts." Let him whose every thought is pure cast a stone at her, he said, in substance, to the witnesses against the sinful woman, and when that piercing glance looked through the mask of hypocrisy to the corrupt and sinful thoughts within, the accusers, one by one, turned silently away.

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