Article November 27, 1926 Issue

Forgive

HARRY WALKER

The writer has often meditated on the sacred meaning of the words, "Forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us," which Luke tells us Jesus gave to his disciples upon their request that he teach them how to pray. Considering the word "forgive," we find one meaning of it to be "cancel" or "obliterate."

In the old days, before the Science of Christianity gave him the necessary enlightenment, one seeker for Truth found that this forgiving or canceling brought with it the overwhelming and then apparently impossible task of carrying out the Golden Rule. It was not until the way, as revealed in Christian Science by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, was practically and scientifically understood, that his attempt to forgive was successful, and he saw that this truly forgiving spirit could be brought into line with the turmoil of daily affairs, as Jesus intended.

It is only by perceiving perfect man as the image and likeness of God and as always present, even as did Jesus, that we can rise above the mist of materiality, and thus really love our neighbor as ourself. It is here we get the key to the problem. False sense and old beliefs must be obliterated by the comprehension of the man that God really made. Reflecting upon, and earnestly searching the Scriptures, gave to one student the joy that no man taketh away, and also the physical healing of a seeming discord which had resulted from a false sense of injured selfhood.

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