The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-24

one Honesty

Continuing this illustration, e may
be- saio that honesty is not a personal
possession but a law or attribute Of
God, for there are not two kinds Of
honesty. but only one. Honor among
thieves is far from being the same
thing as honor among honest men The
one he's it's basis in evil, while the
other is manifestation of Principle.
So the truly honest man is honest from
Principle and that honesty from Prin-
ciple gives one the spiritual power to
resist evil
Health an Attribute of God.
1t is true that orthodox Christians
genera. ly accept this teaching as it re-
lates to temptations of sin; but Chris
tiau Science accepts the same teach
ing as it relates to temptations of sick
ness. That Is to say, We recognize
that health is Just as much a charac-
teristc or attribute of God as are
honesty and goodness, and therefore
the individual makes the same mis-
take who believes that his health is
personal possession, as he does who
believes that his goodness and honesty
are personal possessions. We save
our health through the recognition Of
it's divinity,-that it is the gift of Goo,
and that God has no more purpose
to withdraw it than He would honesty
and goodness. Therefore, ones health
can no more be destroyed or impaired
than can God Himself. If we seem to
lose our health it is not lost but mere
ly hid; or, as explained in II. Cor. 4:3,
4. 1T is hid to them that are lost: In
whom the god of this world hath blind.
ed the minds of them which believe
not, that is, blinded in precisely the
same way that Satan undertook to
blind Job, If Satan had succeeded in
beguiling Job into the belief that his
goodness was mixture of good and
evil, that belief would have BLINDED his
mind to the divine nature of goodness,
and led him away from the spiritual
vision that was ever ready to heal
him. We must, like Job, hold to Gods
idea of His own manifestations of joy
and health, if we would succeed in
overcoming the temptations of sorrow
and suffering; for no one can save
his sense of life until he first knows
what life is; and to succeed in that
he must first know the nature of God,
who is the divine Principle of our life
and joy and health.
Completeness Of Divine Mind.
When Abraham began to experience
these right desires, they exercised a
guiding power which he recognized as
the Almighty This infinite power is
not matter but Mind. That is why
we seek God through prayer by being
like-minded. After that, the prophet
Habakkuk was inspired by this divine
Mind to such deeds of goodness as to
recognize their source 10 be not only a
mighty power, but a power for good.
Whereupon he said, Thou art of purer
eyes than to behold evil, and canst not
look on iniQuity." Later yet the prim
tive Christians were inspired by this
same Mind to such deeds of loving
kindness as to recognize their source
to he Love itself Whereupon the be-
Owed disciple breathed that divine ut
terance, "He that loveth not knoweth
not God; for God is love" 1t follows
that We do MOI Gcquaint ourselves with
the divine nature through the intellect,
but through a pure affection that opens
the way through goodness to its
Science. Therefore Gods presence is
more felt than seen; for He inspires
goodness in place of evil; lOving-kind-
ness in place of hate; health in place
of sickness; and life in place Of death.
1t is this Mind or intelligence which
includes all actual Life, Truth, and
Love.
Mrs. Eddy's Discovery.
The first case of healing that led to
the discovery of Christian Science was
that of Mrs. Eddy. She had met with
an accident which those about her con
sidered must result fatally She had
always been a devout student of the
Bible, and when confronted by that
experience she naturally turned to
her Bible for some comfort ana conso-
lation, and there while she was study
ing the Scriptural passages she sud
denly seized on their spiritual meaning
and was instantly healed This was
in the year 1866, She recognized for
the first time that her health was not
a personal possession, to be lost or
impaired, but that it was the gift of
God, as indestructible as God Himself,
and that God had no more purpose Of
Withdrawing that health than He had
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