The Bible Speaks to You April 25, 1964 Issue

[The above is substantially the text of the program released for broadcast the week of April 17-23 in the radio series, "The Bible Speaks to You." heard internationally over more than 850 stations. This is one of the weekly programs prepared and produced by the Christian Science Committee on Publication, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.]

RADIO PROGRAM No. 107 - Freedom from Guilt

INTERVIEWER: Perhaps everybody knows what it is to feel guilty. The child who has a twinge of conscience when he helps himself to candy without permission has something in common with the adult who feels guilty because of more serious deeds or shortcomings. The problem is how to get rid of guilt.

In his book "Beyond Anxiety" the Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike compares guilt to refuse in the kitchen sink and says: "You can't leave it around the kitchen; nor can you lock it up in the cupboards and closets. You usually arrange to have some agency take it off your hands. So with guilt: we can't live with it, we can't afford to hide it in the unconscious (by denying that it is guilt); we need it taken off our hands." (Copyright. 1953, by James A. Pike, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, N. Y.) What are your comments on this? Is there a way to have guilt taken off our hands?

SPEAKER: Yes, there is; and as Bishop Pike has pointed out, we need to have it taken off just as we need to have trash removed, but with this significant difference: when trash is hauled off, we know we are going to have more of it again and again to dispose of; but when guilt is removed, we need to remove the underlying source, the inclination to do wrong which produced the guilt in the first place.

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