Editorial May 12, 1956 Issue

THE POWER OF INNOCENCE

Harold Molter

After Jesus had been betrayed by Judas and after his persecutors had brought their accusations against him, he was led before Pilate. The Master made no attempt to defend himself when Pilate asked him if he did not hear the things which his opponents witnessed against him. Jesus remained silent before the judge and before his accusers. He entrusted himself to the supreme judge, by whose law the innocent are always protected from the guilty.

The innocent mind rooted in Christ is safe because there is nothing in it to respond to evil or materiality. In the book of Revelation we read that the dragon warred against the Lamb—the symbol of innocence and purity. Evil cannot touch the pure in heart, those whose thoughts are rooted and grounded in Truth. Innocence and purity are divine qualities and as such are a law of annihilation to error in whatever form it appears.

When the prophet Daniel was brought before the king and accused of worshiping his own God, he was put into a den of lions. What protected him from being attacked by these beasts? His innocency, his purity of thought, in which there was no resentment, no unlovely response to the evil designs of his enemies to get rid of him. His innocence rendered harmless the ordinarily wild animals and exposed the guilt of those who conspired against him. When asked by the king if his God had saved him, Daniel answered (6:22), "My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt."

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