Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-22

we should .,G1tinually keep To tore US:
what the world most needs from the
individual Christian Scientist today is
more of unsettled love for God and
man: the love divine which heals the
sick in a single treatment; the love
which is far above human affection or
sentiment; the love that 'beareth all
things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things" the love
that is rooted in purity, ripens into
power and whose fruitage is the Wis
dom that blesses all mankind.
Good Deeds.
Back of every good deed there is a
good thought and without that good
thought to actuate 1t there could be
no good deed. Christian Science be-
ing religion of works, Is primarily .
religion of thoughts, of thinking, OF
right thinking. 1t deals with thoughts
rather than things.
Sickly thoughts invite a sickly body,
just as wholesome thoughts tend to
produce healthy body. Christian
Science offers to each individual the
thought models he needs II he would
shape his thinking BEAUTIFULLY and
tremendously.
In setting up our new models of
thinking we need to pull down and
clear away those things that have in.
juriously influenced our thinking in
the past. Perhaps the most common of
these Is encouragement. Let me here
Tell you two great things that Chris
tan Science Is doing for discouraged
mankind. a ~, ..t.s. -. !. -
First-It Is uncovering and pro
claiming fact about disbursement
that has long been hidden: the fact
that encouragement is an active
agency of evil, the more subtle and
dangerous because seldom recognized
by its victims as thing that is bad
throughout, bad In nature, influence
and in effect. There are few
indeed. outside of Christian Science
who shun encouragement as they
would disease, weakness, incompetent
cy or adversely. yet Ii opens the way
for the entrance OF all these things
and worse. .s.es.
The second great thing that Chris
tian Science Is doing for the disfour-
aged man is in giving him an antidote
for the poison of encouragement that
is instant In its operation, and posi-
tive in its results. 1t is something
that cannot be bought with money,
yet is as free as the sunshine, and as
blessed as the summers rain. It Is
called Gratitude.
Do you know, my friends, that the
heart filled with gratitude to God for
His goodness quenches the. chokins
fires Of discouragement as the ocean
does a3spark? Gratitude and discour.
agement cannot exist together. *
And why, it may be asked. Is not
man more grateful for all that God
has given him of good
A noted English divine, profound
scholar. and student of men said
more than hundred years ago:
1T Is generally true that all that Ii
required to make men Hnmindful Of
what they owe TO God for any bless.
ing, is that they should receive that
blessing often and regularly. =
Bishop Whateley might have added
conversely That to make men grateful
to God for blessings received so often
and regularly they have but to enum.
crate the things they have which they
rrize the most, things which they be.
lieve they could not do without.
Count your blessings is q bit Of adj
vice not new, but never to be ignored
by him who would keep the door oil
thankfuiness ever open wide.
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want it badly enough to search for 1t,
and when We have found it we will
discover that encouragement has
vanished. To paraphrase a familiar
saying when gratitude comes In at
the door, encouragement flies out OF
the window f :. g. E. q.
| It is related in fable that two oil
the devils imps were once sent out to
trap a man who was doing much good
In the world through his habit OF
right thinking. They were given in,
structions to use all their tricks, and
schemes and beguilements, and wero
fairly loaded down with temptations
that had rarely failed to entice other
men. They secretly worked upon him
day after day without result and
finally gave 1t up as a hopeless case.
3 Then they were summoned before
his satanic majesty, the devil, to &C.
count for their failure, and a crest.
fallen pair of imps they we're. 1--WE
tried him. they reported, with rich.
es and poverty, with pleasure and
pain, with success and failure, with
sickness and health, but we could not
move him."
= Let me see your TOOLS. said the
devil.
i He looked them over and counted a
full assortment of mental hooks and
saws and hammers and magnets and
wrenches generally used by evil to
dislodge and u2couple men from theif
sense of right. But one Of the usual
outfit was missing.
Where is your wedge" cried the
devil in rage. How could you ex
pect to get a man who holds fast to
Lis habits Of right thinking unless you
first pry him loose with our old re-
liable wedge? Now take this and
cat hDov And bo bandod fhan on