The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-10-01

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target for disease, but is already
| striped with the Cotors of unbelief, for
he gloomily dlstrusts the power and
| goodness Of God himself. Fnts may
startle some of you who are acCus-
toned to let yourselves be robbed of
your courage-discouraged-and to
| slide INTERESTINGLY into the bilious
| depths of the "pIues" when things go
wrong. The Christian world is full Of
G~od-tearing and t~ruth-loving people
who yield readily to encouragement
| because they have not yet discovered
| wher it comes from and what is back
of it. They do not see that it is the
advance agent of evil itself. A tamil
lar fable of folklore will perhaps i'll
lustrate this point.
1t was once announced that the devil
was going out OF business and would
offer all mis- tools tor sale to whoever
would pay his price. on the night Of
| the sale they were all attractively dis
| played, and a bad looking lot they
were. Malice, envy, hatred, jealousy,
sensuality, deceit and all the other i'm
plements Of evil were spread out, each
marked with its price. Apart from the
rest lay a harmless looking wedge
shaped tool, much worn and priced
higher than any OF them,
Some one asked the devil what it
was. That's encouragement" was
the reply. We'll, why do you have it
priced so high Because replied
the devil, lit is more useful to me than
n of the others. / a pry open and
get inside a mans consciousness with
that when l couldn't get near him with
any of the others, and when once in
/ side l can use him in. whatever way
suits me best. 1t is so much worn be-
cause l use it with nearly everybody,
as very few people yet know that it
] belongs to me-"
1t hardly need be added that the dew
lis price for encouragement was so
high that 1t was never sold. He still
] owns 1t and he is still using it.
Encouragement is a stranger to I'M
selfishness. No mar who faithfully
trusts in the omnipotence of God and
the omnipresence of Love can afford
to allow discouragement to argue with
him for n minute.
The Christian Scientist in his I'M
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 into thought
some measure of gratitude or praise.
There can always be found something
to be grateful for if we Will hunt for il
honestly and earnestly. The good
| o~ld-fashioned practise OF. counting our
blessings, the things we have we would
not like to do without, generally brings
\ gratitude to the surface for along eV-
cry mans pathway IN life there are
blooming the sweet flowers Of graft
tude and IL he will but stoop and pull
one and wear it he Will lind It's fra
GRANGE a magic dispeller of discour-
agement. Or II the day be cold and
dreary and the flowers covered with
snow, he can lind that warmth of soul
which always banishes discourage
ment, If he will but heed that part of
a favorite passage of Jesus from lisa
iah, where we are commanded TO put
on 1.-The garment OF praise Tor the
| spirit of heaviness."
1t never fails.
Light and Darkness.
! have thus far spoken more of the
results of Christian Science than of
its methods. For the latter / would
have you consult the pages of its text
book Science and Health With Key to
the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
You will not lay it. down with disap-
pointment If you take it up with SIN
certify.
But that you may carry away with
you tonight some elementary precept
to test for yourselves. l. would place
before o 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 proved in, millions of instances
that a wrong thought which is the
father of a wrong action will invaria-
bly, vanish into n~othingness if you will
but introduce a right thought in its
place. Good destroys evil as surely
and as quickly is light destroys dark
ness. Remember that for you will find
1t helpful If you are ever disposed tC
try Christian Science for yourselves
If you will associate in your Thoughts
good with light, and evil with dark
ness you will have before you a fash
light glimpse of the impotence. of evi
in the presence OF the good. Not al
the darkness in the universe can ex.
tinguish the light of one tiny lamp
Wherever it goes it chases away dark
ness, which is always without power
10 move OF even 10 De In the presence
of light So with the light of good an6
the darkness of evil.
The comparison Is a good one, but II
Is not mine. You will find 1t many
times in the pages OF your Bible. Re-
member then, If you will, that the
Christian Science method of banishine
eyil-darkness-is to bring In the
light-good. IL you were to try Ii fol
a single day o would be surprised tic
find what a new sort of day you would
be giving to yourselves. Every time
you find yourself thinking unkindIy
about Your neighbor, bring in a good
thought about him and 1t will help you
Every time your thought drops TO the
level of the beast, lift Is as near the
stars as you car raise 1t. III thoughts
unclean, unjust, malicious or obstruc-
tive are there, bring in something of
purity, of justice. of helpfulness, OF
love. When you have done your best
in this line Of noble e%ndeavor. you haye
accomplished much. You have taken
a step, a little n to be sure, but II
leads In the direction Of the under
standing Of God-the knowledge Of
Him, whom to know Alright is life
eternal.
"A New York man recently died Of
old age 1t 26. He was probably one
OF those Nho sang Better twent,
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