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Alas, of what avail was it; they turned away and opposed Him. They rose up and tormented that Source of Divine knowledge, that Point where the Revelation had come down--all except for a handful who, turning their faces toward God, were cleansed of the stain of this world and found their way to the heights of the placeless Realm. They inflicted every agony on that Wellspring of grace until it became impossible for Him to live in the towns, and still He lifted up the flag of salvation and solidly established the fundamentals of human righteousness, that essential basis of true civilization.
In the fifth chapter of Matthew beginning with the
thirty-seventh verse He counsels: "Resist not evil and
injury with its like; but whosoever shall smite thee on
thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." And further,
from the forty-third verse: "Ye have heard that it
hath been said, `Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and
thou shalt not vex thine enemy with enmity.' (49) But I