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September 17, 2018 at 4:53 pm #7254

parthens

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Where’s the Love?

To say, “Nothing ails you” in the scenario that Mrs Eddy describes (SH 460) is equivalent to a defense attorney entering a courtroom without presenting a single witness or item of evidence in his client’s favor, yet announcing to judge and jury, “My client is innocent,” then exiting the courtroom – leaving his client open to an unbridled onslaught of attacks from his accusers.

“Love is priestess at the altar of Truth” (SH 454).

A priest or priestess is a mediator of reconciliation between God and man.

Divine Love employs Christian Science as Mediator, or Paraclete (another name for the Holy Ghost – SH 588 and John 14): Counselor, Attorney, Advocate, and this fact illumines the pages of Mrs. Eddy’s allegory, “The Trial”, in which Christian Science single-handedly triumphs in the Supreme Court of Spirit to reverse the decision of the lower court of the Accuser (SH 430-442).

Note the vehemence with which Christian Science so passionately argues against the testimony of mortal mind and its swarm of lying witnesses that have ganged up against the defendant, a dying patient, distracted and overwhelmed with pain and hopelessness.

As a defense attorney, Christian Science is neither cringing nor matter-of-fact (unlike a hireling public defender), but battles pro bono for the welfare of the accused with a devotion that can only be compared to a parent protecting his/her beloved child from a murderous mob.