Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-08
TRUTHS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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mortar that binds every brick. and
stone?
So it Is with our thoughts, our &C.
tons, our endeavors. They are brick
and stones out Of which our lives arc
constructed. However well shaped,
however carefully laid they may be.
unless they are bound above and be.
low With the cement of love for God
and man, they may in time tumble
into tangled mass Of mediocrity like
mortarless bricks. But when laid with
the cement of love into the struc.
| ture Of our lives, they will protect and
shelter and beautify the affairs of all
who enter them.
ENCOURAGEMENT.
Christian Science brings the Truth
to human comprehension, gives free.
dom from whatever enslaves and thus
bestows mental, moral and physical
liberty. In the process Of liberation 1t
sits cut certain pernicious practices
and pfopens;ties, generally regarded
as harmless, but with are to be shun-
ned as allies of evil It shows us that
we have INDUCED in moods and incli-
nations that we believed were guile
less, II not eommendabIe, but were in
reality neither wise nor harmless. We
find we have been warming in the in
eubator OF our favor the eggs of SER
penis that we believed belonged to
doves. Perhaps the most common Of
diseasee-inyiting habits of thought is
disease-inviting habits of thought is
all been on intimate terms with II
one time or another, and while we.
have never found it cheerful COM any,
we have not looked upon 1t as sin.
lister visitor. Yet that is just what
Christian Science shows It to be.
Discoupagernent wears the invisible
livery of evil and Is constantly and
consistently working for its master. II
Is always pulling down and never
building up.
Did you ever know any one to &C
:comnlish anything worth while when
In the grip Of encouragement? II;
paralyzes effort. stupefies thought and
dissipates purpose.
There is a ridiculous side also to
the condition OF tine man who is men.
tally sick abed with q bad case of
encouragement. He Is only happy
when he Is miserable; the worse ne
feels the better he likes it; the things
that please him most are the things
that do not please him at all. He is.
continually stumbling into the two
extremes Of self.justification and self
condemnation. Both are bad; both;
are modelled after plans drawn in the
devils workshop; both are obstruct-.
i've to progress Self-coat emnation
digs q hole; self classification sets up
a. pole, and no man can go very far
in any right direction when he is
either crouched In the bottom ef a;
hole or perehed on the top of q pole.I
Man is eaSowed with nobler quail.
ties than those OF the beasts of the
field or the fowls of the air, and he
must come out of the hole OF: self
condemnation and down from the
role of sell. iustification en- eto tho
level ground OF unsettled endeavor il
be would progress in Christian Sci
cnce.
More than all Of this Christian Sci
ence discloses that the man habitu-i,
ally discouraged is not only an inylt.
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 youlwho are ac-
customed to let yourselves be robbed
of your courage discouraged land toj
slide INTERESTINGLY into the bilious
depths of the blues" when things sgol
wrong The Christian world is full
of Godfearing and truth-loying peo-
pie who yield readily to. discourage
ment because they have not yet dis.
covered where 1t comes from and.
what is back oil. 1t. They do not see
that it is but the advance agent OF
evil itself. A familiar fable of folk /
lcre will perhaps illustrate this point |
1t was once announced that thet
devil was going out of business and
would offer all his tools for sale TO -,
whoever would pay his price. On,
the night of the sale they we're all
attractiyely displayed, and a bad
looking lot they were. Malice, envy, |
hatred, jealousy, ~sensuaiity, deceit |
and all the other implements of evil !
were spread out, each marked with I,
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 il:
was. That's Encouragement" was
The reply. We'll why do you have it
priced so hight" Because" replied
the devil, ut is more useful to me
than any of the others. can pry,
open and get inside 4 mans cen,
sciousness' with that when l couldn't
set near him with any Of the others,
and when once inside / can use him
in whatever way suits me best. 1t is
so much worn because I use it with
nearly everybody, as very few pep.
pie yet know that il belongs to me-"
1t hardly need be added that the ,
devils price for encouragement was
so high that ii was never sold. He
still owns ii and he is still using it.
D!ScourGgement is a stranger 10