Editorial February 17, 1973 Issue

Getting Rid of Anger

Naomi Price

Anger is never justifiable. Not even the anger that professes to be righteous. The Bible says, "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous."^{ Prov. 27:4;} Elsewhere the Scriptures occasionally refer to the "anger of the Lord," but God, divine Love, can never be wrathful. Mrs. Eddy explains in Science and Health: "The manifestations of evil, which counterfeit divine justice, are called in the Scriptures, 'The anger of the Lord.' In reality, they show the self-destruction of error or matter and point to matter's opposite, the strength and permanency of Spirit."^{ Science and Health, p. 293;}

Christian Science maintains that wrath, anger, hostility—all violent emotions—are malevolent characteristics of the carnal mind. They are vicious mental enemies to human well-being that should be resolutely mastered in thought before they appear in more visible and aggressive forms.

Raging winds and waves, the ferocity of beasts, emotional stress, convulsive muscular reactions, and bodily inflammation in human beings—these are some of the destructive phenomena of mortal anger. People often long to be free of them, and they can be free through the activity of divine Spirit, man's true and permanent Life. Anger and its outrageous manifestations are not legitimate components of mankind's experience. They have no claim upon the real, spiritual man, who is the image of God, the divine Mind, the one Father of true being, so mankind has the power to overcome them through the operation of the Christ, or divine idea, in human consciousness.

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