Why Not Get Even?

By Rev. Ernest O'Neill

There's a doctor, that many of us know, who wrote this book called, "None of These Diseases."  He has a paragraph in a chapter which is called, 'The High Cost of Getting Even.'   The paragraph runs like this, "When Jesus said forgive seventy times seven, he was thinking not only of our souls, but of saving our bodies from ulcerative colitis, toxic goiters, high blood pressure and scores of other diseases."

The advice of the Great Physician appears to have percolated even into the hard-boiled bulletin of a Milwaukee police department, "If selfish people try to take advantage of you, cross them off your list, but don't try to get even. When you try to get even, you hurt yourself more than you hurt the other fellow."  That's interesting for a police department, isn't it?