Editorial July 13, 1957 Issue

A CLEAR CONSCIENCE

Helen Wood Bauman

Every individual has a conscience, an instinctive knowledge, or judgment, of right and wrong. Through the conscience God speaks to us. We hear His voice as our inmost thoughts telling us to obey the laws of Truth and Love. If one acts against his sense of right and his conscience seems to become hardened, he is storing up trouble for himself. His experience will show the effects of disobedient thinking and will not be set right until his conscience is brought alive by faithful, spiritual effort.

Christ Jesus was teaching the demand for a clear conscience in honest worship when he said in his Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5: 23, 24), "If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift."

The Christ quickens and restores conscience, rousing one to the need for making restitution for wrongdoing. Wrong which has been done should not only be acknowledged, but it should be righted when this is possible. This is the lesson we learn from the story of Zacchaeus recorded in the nineteenth chapter of Luke.

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