Editorial December 28, 1981 Issue

No penalty for doing good

NATHAN A. TALBOT

God's law of good always rewards honest and charitable motives. But mortal existence turns things upside down. So-called material law would attempt to invert this divine rule and suggest that the good thing one does may open him up to penalty or punishment. Divine Science comes to the rescue and obliterates this mistake; it shows how healing results when we challenge this specific inversion—and turn things right side up again.

A man came down with a cold. While human reasoning may have attributed the cause of the illness to his strenuous efforts to aid some friends, he refused to submit to such an erring line of thought. In fact, his recognition that God overturns injustice dissolved the symptoms.

You, too, may at some time find that a cure comes by dealing with this issue. The key to your healing may include the strong, consistent affirmation, the genuine recognition, that divine Love's statute rewards right action; and this forms a basis for the specific denial that a good deed can result in a penalty. Mrs. Eddy writes: "Common opinion admits that a man may take cold in the act of doing good, and that this cold may produce fatal pulmonary disease; as though evil could overbear the law of Love, and check the reward for doing good. In the Science of Christianity, Mind—omnipotence—has all-power, assigns sure rewards to righteousness, and shows that matter can neither heal nor make sick, create nor destroy."^{Science and Health, pp. 202-203.}

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