Article February 13, 1902 Issue

Forgiving

BY G. C. M.

Though I was healed by reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I wish to say that the fact that this blessed book has proven a "Key to the Scriptures" to me is my most wonderful, illimitable blessing. I was told by my physicians that I could only be an invalid even if I submitted to severe operations and lived, "Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of God" (Science and Health, p.379).

It was beautiful to understand my Bible more and more, and has been a great joy since I was healed over four years ago. I found so many sayings, first of Jesus, then of the apostles, which were simply unexplainable without this Light.

But if there is any one ray of this Light for which I am more thankful than others, it is the way which clearly explains the word Forgive. On page 234 of Science and Health, we see, "The destruction of sin is the divine method of pardon. Divine Life destroys death, Truth destroys error, and Love destroys hate. Being destroyed, sin needs no other form of forgiveness." Formerly, to forgive meant to me to overlook. I supposed all you had to do was to be sorry when you erred and ask God to forgive (overlook) it, and then to believe He would. However hard I tried, there were so many things I did before I could think. I got so I felt ashamed to ask God to forgive (overlook) the same kind of sin so many times, even if I did promise to try very hard not to commit it again. I sometimes even thought I would not blame Him if He should refuse me! I should have been more anxious, I think, to have had my sins forgiven if I had known they left an outward manifestation on body or circumstances equally repulsive.

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