Editorial November 18, 1985 Issue

Gaining dominion over anger

CAROLYN B. SWAN

To rise above anger through divine grace is the mark of a true Christian. Through God's healing, saving grace, Christ Jesus mastered even the malicious anger that instigated the false accusations against him and the attempts to kill him. He overcame death itself through resurrection.

Jesus said to his followers, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you."^{John 14:27.} We can never really lose the peace that comes to us through Christ, the eternal divine idea that Jesus taught and lived. This peace is native to us; therefore anger is merely an imposition, a belief that evil has power. Anger, like all sin, has neither power, cause, nor effect—no entity, unless we give it one. God, sinless good, is all-power, the only cause. And man created in His likeness, our true identity, is His continuous, harmonious effect.

Christian Science teaches that because God is infinite—the one and only Mind, Ego, and Soul—there can be no mortal mind, temperament, or egotism to provoke or be provoked by, to vent or to witness anger. Lending our ears or our tongues to wrath, we would unnecessarily give our allegiance to belief in intelligence, existence, and consciousness apart from God. This would delay our realization of the gracious action of divine Love. No wonder Mrs. Eddy warns, "It is error even to murmur or to be angry over sin."^{Science and Health, p.369.}

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