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

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pitch never made clean hands.
= a wrong thought Is quickest de-
stroyed by introducing right one In
its place. There is no better. surer
way. To drive darkness out OF your
room, you need only to bring in your
light. --...-. - -
Here let 1t be said that two Of the
devils fayorite weapons so often
turned against the man who IS work
ing to bring more Of purity into his
life are self-eondemnation and dis
couragement. But they come not
from God, and can End no feothold
in the consciousness OF the man
whose thought is turned to God and
His goodness, and whose heart is
filed with gratitude.
1t is not only what we succeed in
doing, but also what We try our best
to do in Christian Science that
brings growth. Every earnest effort
to displace an impure thought with a
pure one, even though It may not in
stantly succeed, makes the next ef-
fort q more successful one.
The man who takes three steps
forward and falls back two. viii yet
arrive before the man who never
starts. ~% S. ....< ":~ r
The day is no: so very far distant
when the general public will recog.
nize, as many of US now do, the enor-
nous Influence for purity that Chris
tian Science is exerting throughout
the world. Clean Journalism. clean
business clean literature, clean poll
tics, clean sport. things that not so
very long ago were popularity regard
ed as Utopian and visionary are gain
ing staunch adherents every day.
We Christian Scientists must new
er lose sight OF the debt of gratitude
we owe to Mrs. Eddy for the pure
and unadulterated form in which
Science and Health has been given
us. There were times in the earlier
days when It took not only frmness
but courage of the highest type to re-
sist the attempts that were made TO
dilute its substance and to graft into
Science and Health the offshoots
of some popular or pleasing religious
invention. But that hook was never
to, be adulterated and its purity has
been preserved.
Mixed wines are deluding and
those tipplers In religion who take Q
little from this belief and little
from that to compound what they
call q religion Of their own, are not
to be found In the ranks Of Christian
Science. A patchwork religion may
seem attractive and appealing to
many because OF the ease with which
It may be worn. but It parts at the
seams when the hard strain comes.
The seamless garment is needed In
the storms of life.
Affection.
1t is to be noted that In Science
and Health affection Is mentioned sew
eral times in connection with purity
as though to remind us how each
is to be linked with the other. Each
may lack the needed quality the other
supplies. Nature expresses both sepa-
rately. in man alone are they COM
bined. =!5ss
81 This combination of purity and at.
lection we may find In the love Of a
little child. unspoiled. unselfish, ull.
tainted. Such little one as Jesus
took in HIS arms and blessed; and
no heaven seeking man or woman can
afford to neglect or ignore Jesus
s4sllear SExcept We become, as little
and As1 81 can not enter the king
and tBs9 a. -.
NThere is nothing about Christian
Science TO encourage animality. It's
domain is the mental and spiritual.
not the physical and sensual But
on the other hand we are never to
drift into a coldly metaphysical aspect
towards men and things. As man
grows in knowledge Of his true rela.
tjonship with God, so his attitude to-
wards his fellow man spontaneously
nndergoes change. indifference,
self sufficiency. narrow mindedness
give way to fellowship: ardory whole
Eheartedness. The warmth Of pure at
lection Is ever developed and fostered
in Christian Science.
3 The newly fallen snow Is pure, but
cold and unresponsiye. The rose OF
the garden is equally pure and beau
.tiful, but 1t also exhales perfume
that like good thought, delights ev-
cry one who shares In it; an odor
sweet as 1t Is inexhaustible. A thou
sand may smell Of the rose without
depriving 1t of a single particle OF its
perfume. It gives beautifully, but is
not impoverished in the giving. So
with true affection. TX r
While such affection Is all-inelusiye,
it centers- In the home. Mrs. Eddy
cherished q greater love for home
than for any other human institution,
yet during the most strenuous years
Of her eyentful life, she was deprived
of that which she would have SO
greatly priced, home Of her own
which would be at once refuge and
a sanctuary.
In later years, however, she was
thus rewarded and as one who was
privileged, with others, for long time
to share her home with her, can
assure you that it was to her a haven
of peace and rest-rest in activity;
the rest which Is idealized in Science
and Health (P520) where we may read