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

a habit that may be acquired BIZ any:
one who will apply himself TO form u
Man has been called a creature of
habit, q designation that applies as
we'll to his thinking as TO his behav.
ior.
Christian Science IL teaching its
followers the value of right habits Of
thinking, and how to form them,
habits that adapt themselves to right
courses in all things, great and small.
In Judging the good deeds of Chris
ton Science the unthinking WorlG
would measure us by its own stand
ards. 1t says that because We have
no hospitals for the sick. no aims
houses for the poor. no asylums for
the demented. no missionaries, no Or
ganiZed charities. that We are there
tore neglecting the sick. the poor, the
friendless. Christian Science needs
70 defense at my hands for its cho-
sen methods of ministering to the
needs of SHINING and suffering hu-
mainly. Its splendid record Of re-
suits achieved, ever increasing, Is un-
assailable. 1t Is true that our meth
DDS are different. but their results
viii measure with the best that the
world has ever known. We do not
condemn hospitals, or asylums or
missions for those who want them.
We are trying to do away with all ne
cessity, for them. and for a multitude
Of people Christian Science has aboi-
ished them forever. In due time we
know the need for them will cease to
appear, and they will then cease to
be. Meanwhile, let those who see no
better course turn to them, and may
God speed them on their way. Every
earnest practical Christian Scientist
is not only a physician in the highest
sense of the word, but he Is also a
missionary, friend to the friendiess,
helper to the helpless. His work
Is individual, not institutional. He is
not inclined TO give publicity to his
endeayors, but not on that account
should he be assailed by those VINO
would reach the same end by DIFF
ferent course.
Self-Forpetfuiness - - 49,
Coming then to self-forgetfulness,
with which purity and affection are de-
scribed I'm Science and Health al
constant prayers" let us consider
what Is here meant by .Forgetfui-
ness. What is this self'we are to
forget. Not mans absolute selfhood
which is reflection OF the divine,
but what man mistakenly considers
himself to be, q body OF flesh and
bones with an. intangible something
called q soul which he declares IS
concealed somewhere inside Of his
body. but which no one has ever
seen or knows where to find. II is
this nlaterisl man whom We will DO
well to forget--the man Who sins and
suffers. loves and hates. lives and
dies, is self.centered and sslf indul.
gent. BY far the greater par OF his
concern is for himself and ht5 affair 3,
and the more he think 1abcAt them
the less he thinks about Sod
In Christian science there Is to be
found no better way Of foggetting sci.
than thinking about God Tor accord.
ing to the apt couplet
when you think about self, trouble
grows, 1929 Z -. +s..:e
When you think about God, trouble
goes. e. =. ~. 3
The mental analysis which is Q pari
of Christian Science practice. 81;
closes that excessive sell siIs Ter
al, unsupported cause of many meoesi
and physical disorders. The man VIII
q grievance, the man who believes he
Ii always getting the worst Of it,
the sensitive woman who IS easily
sighted and hurt, the child who Is
sDoiled, are instances oil excessiYe
self.thinking abitually thinking oi
themselves. Going d step further, we
find melancholia and excessive gTi s
springing from the same causeIseh
thinking. Insane asylHms are full o.
1T, chronic invalids resel IN II 81.
II is sometimes wondered why
Christian Science discourages taikins
about disease. 1t Is bad for those who
are well. it SIS worse for those who are
sick. Ninety-nine times IN the nun
bred, when the sick man talks dis
ease, he is talking and thinking aDoul
his own particular form Of H-hlmseil
in other words. There are perhaps
mo more self-centered people In the
world than those who are sick ana
like to talk about It, and for those
dear people, II they, only knew It, the
prayer of seIf-forgetfulness, would &c
more towards Fastening recovery than
quarts of medicine and pints Of pills
For self-forgetfulness in Christian
Science embraces more than simply
putting self out of thought IN
ciudes also bringing God. good into
thought. 49,. .,-,.
Daily study of the Bible, conformity
and correlatively with the text, boob
of Christian Science is an aid In self
forgetting. Helping some one Is an
other. It is. we'll to remember each
day that some one, somewhere Is sore
" in need of just what you can give
It may be only CHEEKY SMILE or
kindly word of appreciation or en-
couragement, it may be q bit OF sclen
tific thought that will change the
whole course of a life. It may be as
s;stance Of more material nature
hit 1yhatever NAV be it's form, 1t vii