that they justify murder, and then some one is killing somebody else.

You have come into the Truth, and if you have had an old hatred for some people, now you have learned to dismiss them from your mind, for they were so uncomfortable to think about. You have learned that you cannot hold them altogether evil, hut then you sometimes justify hating the sin because you think that God hates sin, and that wrath against sin is legitimate. But in love, there is no hatred at all. God is love, and love knows no wrath, knows no hatred, not for one second. Therefore there is nothing in hating sin; sin is nothing; what is there to hate?

You reason with yourself and this reasoning is good. It takes you from that distracting thought, that dividing, breaking, insane thought of hatred. For hatred leads to insanity. So when that person comes into mind, you should know a thought that neutralizes the old one of hatred--- something just opposite to hatred.

Exercise by the Audience

By way of exercise let all this audience think upon an opposite thought to hatred.

Audience: "Love." 
Speaker: Perhaps you start with love: “I love you. Love is the only presence and the only power.”

It sounds, perhaps, like a lot of words; you don’t want to spoil your thought about love, so you drop it.

“It is a little too much,” perhaps you are thinking; “I don’t see how I ever can love that one.”