The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-20

shows It to be.
~Discouragement wears. the invisible
livery of evil and is constantly and
consistently working for its master.
1t is always pulling down and never
building up.
Did you ever kno wanyone to ac-
complish anything while in the grip
of discouragement? 1t paralyzes effort
Supplies thought and dissipates pur-
pose.
"The discouraged man is as power
|, less in the hands of evil as a batch of
dough in the hands of the baker. He
has no more backbone tina ma putty
doll. But unlike either dough or putty
he neither satisfies a longing or re-
stores an unsightly blemish. He is
neither useful nor ornamental.
More than all of this Christian
Science discloses that the man hahitu-
ally discouraged is not only an invit-
ing target for disease. but is already
striped with the colors of unbelief. for
he gloomily distrusts the power and
goodness of God Himself. This may
startle some of you who are accus-
toned to let yourselves be robbed of
your e-discouraged- and to
slide unresistingly into the bilious
depths of the blues when things so
wrong.
Il would not have you confound
doubt with Encouragement for they
are wide apart in nature and effect
Doubt asks questions, where discour-
agement only sighs Doubt wants rea-
sons. Encouragement drops reason in
the mud Doubt says 1 WONDER" dis.
couragement says / don't believe it.
Discouragement is a stranger to I'M
selfishness. No man who faithfully
trusts in the omnipotence of God and
the omnipresence of love can permit
discouragement to talk with him for
one minute.
"The Christian Scientist in his un-
ceasing warfare against evil in every
form allows, encouragement no more
foothold in his consciousness than he
does to malice, hatred. envy or deceit.
He is freed from the bondage of all Of
them by knowing the truth about God.
and man.
"An effective plan to drive out dis
couragement is to bring in measure
of gratitude or praise. There can al
ways be found something to be CRATE
full for If we will hunt for it. Along
every mans pathway in life there are
blooming flowers covered with snow,
he can find that warmth of soul which
always banishes Encouragement, If he
Twill but heed Jesus favorite passage
from Isaiah, where we are commanded
to put on The garment of praise for
the spirit of heaviness.' 1t never fails.
Light and Darkness.
'T have thus spoken more of the
results of Christian Science than OF
its methods. For the latter I would
have you consult the pages of it's text
book, Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
You will not lay it down wis disar-
pointment if you take it up wis sin
cerity
But that you may carry away with
you tonight some elementary prece0t
to test yourselves, | would place be
fore you this simple fact The Chris
tian Science method of getting rid Of
things that are wrong is to introduce
things that are right This is not
fighting evil but destroying it. 1t has
been proven in millions of instances
that wrong thought which is the
father of a wrong action will invari-
ably vanish into nothingness if you
Will but introduce right thought in
its place. Good destroys evil as sure
Iy and as quickly as light destroys
darkness. Remember that for you will
find it helpful il you are ever disposed
Ito try Christian Science for your
selves. If you will associate in your
thought good with light, and evil with
darkness you win have before you a
fashlight glimpse Of the impotence Of
evil in the presence of good. Not al
the darkness in the universe can e1-
tingush the light of one tiny lamp.
Wherever it goes it chases away dark
| ness, which is always without power
to move, or even to be, in the pres
ence of light. So with the light Of
good and the darkness of evil.
The comparison is a good one, but
| it is not nine You will find it many
times in the pages of your Bible. Re