Chapter 10: The Wrath of Man

WHOSO READETH LET HIM UNDERSTAND - Chapter 10.

THE WRATH
OF
MAN

THE Psalmist said, “Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee; the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.”
What is it that most scientifically or understandingly expresses God with a clean-cut, definite understanding of good instead of faith, belief, or guesswork? The answer is simple. Christian Science.
Christian Science is the love for man shown forth as the Love that is God. It appears as the healing or destruction of all error. Isaiah expressed it, “To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke.”
The reverse of this would be the binding with “bands of wickedness,” oppression and heavy

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burdens, which is always what is done by malicious mental malpractice. This is the exact suppositional opposite of Christian Science and, therefore, its nature is to reverse the truth at every step. Instead of loosing the bands of wickedness it tightens them; instead of working openly as matter, where it can in belief be seen, it works mentally in secrecy and darkness where in belief it cannot be seen.
As Christian Science is the love of man, so malicious mental malpractice is the wrath or hatred of man. But that hatred, when correctly understood and reversed, becomes praise of God.
This wrath of man, malicious mental malpractice, compels the mortal to turn away from belief in the body, and find his absolute oneness with Mind, as his only way of escape. When this is done, then the wrath of man, this malicious mental malpractice, will not succeed in its purpose to stultify his thinking and kill him in his body.
Turning unreservedly from the belief of a material body to Mind is man’s safety and freedom. The insistent application of divine Mind destroys malicious mental malpractice. Matter offers no means of escape, for “the wrath of man” no longer deals with matter, but entirely

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with mentality. Hence through Mind alone can it be reached and destroyed. There is no other way and you cannot be mesmerized into believing there is. Knowing this you are no longer a child speaking as a child, but you speak as the man of God. You no longer see through a glass, darkly, but “face to face.”
“The remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain” is seen in the fact that only as understanding is present to meet a claim, can that claim arise. In other words you cannot be called upon to meet something that you have not already the understanding with which to meet it. A lie always requires the truth to be present, for the truth is what the lie is the lie about.
Mrs. Eddy verifies this in her statement, “Whenever there seems to be a lack or a need in your experience, that simply indicates the scientific fact that the seeming void is already supplied by God’s gracious abundance.” The Psalmist, too, in unmistakable language, most beautifully declares this same omnipresence of God no matter what the appearance may be.
“Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from they presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

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If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.”
This understanding is what restrains “the remainder of wrath,” for finding God as the one and only source of all activity, gives the right interpretation to every appearance, whether called good or evil.
Mrs. Eddy once very plainly defined to some friends what this wrath of man is that shall be made to praise God. “Malpractice is the wrath of man, and it is being made to praise God by driving you out of the tenement or belief in body. If it does not drive you out of it, it will kill you in it.”

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