Friday, August 20, 2010

Day 227: The First Impression

449:7-451:7

This reading still deals with sin. MBE informs us that our porter at the door of thought is our sign post of Character:

The first impression, made on a mind which is attracted or repelled according to personal merit or demerit, is a good detective of individual character.

Her instruction is pointed:

Christian Scientists must live under the constant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate. They must renounce [1] aggression, [2] oppression, and [3] the pride of power.

Her first statement sums up why:

The wrong done another reacts most heavily against one’s self.

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