The lessons of this so-called life in matter are too vast and varied to learn or to teach briefly; and especially within the limits of a letter. Therefore I close here, [5] with the apostle’s injunction: “Finally, brethren, what- soever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any [10] praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.” With love, Mother, MARY BAKER G. EDDY CHAPTER V. LETTERS. [Page 129.] To The Mother Church. My Beloved Brethren:—If a member of the church is inclined to be uncharitable, or to condemn his brother without cause, let him put his finger to his lips, and forgive others as he would _be_ forgiven. One’s first [5] lesson is to learn one’s self; having done this, one will naturally, through grace from God, forgive his brother and love his enemies. To avenge an imaginary or an actual wrong, is suicidal. The law of our God and the rule of our church is to tell thy brother his fault and thereby help [10] him. If this rule fails in effect, then take the next Scrip- tural step: drop this member’s name from the church, and thereafter “let the dead bury their dead,”—let silence prevail over his remains. If a man is jealous, envious, or revengeful, he will seek [15] occasion to balloon an atom of another man’s indis- cretion, inflate it, and send it into the atmosphere of mortal mind—for other green eyes to gaze on: he will always find somebody in his way, and try to push him aside; will see somebody’s faults to magnify under the lens that [20] he never turns on himself. What have been your Leader’s precepts and example! Were they to save the sinner, and to spare his exposure [Page 130.] so long as a hope remained of thereby benefiting him? [1] Has her life exemplified long-suffering, meekness, charity, purity? She readily leaves the answer to those who know her. [5] Do we yet understand how much better it is to be wronged, than to commit wrong? What do we find in the Bible, and in the Christian Science textbook, on this subject? Does not the latter instruct you that looking continually for a fault in somebody else, talking about it, [10] thinking it over, and how to meet it,—“rolling sin as a sweet morsel under your tongue,”—has the same power to make you a sinner that acting thus regarding disease has to make a man sick? Note the Scripture on this subject: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the [15] Lord.”