Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-22
SECOND CHRISTIAV SCIENCE Lecture IS HEARD
BY LARGE audience At HAWAIIAN OPERA HOUSE

In Christian Science we need to learn
the art OF forgetting as we'll as re-
fmembering. forgetting things that are
evil, remembering things that are
good.
Let US take another simple exam
pie. Suppose that before you knew of
christian Science, exposure to severe
cold would bring about Inflammation
and serious complications. But since
you have modelled your living and
your thinking, after the teachings OF
Christian Science you have been ex-
! posed to cold many times and have
suffered no bad results whatever. You
may not be able to control the cold
weather but you can and do control
It's effects upon your body.
+ II you like, let US take another IL
lustration. One day quite unexpect-
edly you find your position gone and
your salary cut off. Others are de-
pendent upon you, and the sugges-
/ lions of failure, fear and dependency
are clamoring to force their way into
your thought. Through your knowl-
edge of Christian Science you silence
/ them and scatter them. Then you
draw closer in thought to Him who is
the source Of all good, knowing that
/ He never faileth, and you start out
anew, not with the spirit Of fear, but
of power and Of love and of a sound
mind" 49,:
Your knowledge Of Christian Sci
ence did not avert the loss of your
position perhaps, but it did save you
from being weighed down by despond-
ency and detection, back-bendfng
load for anyone to carry when In
search of an opening. Good things
come from above, but you cannot see
them nor reach them when your head
Is bowed downwards. - X.
Such examples might be multi
piled Indefinitely and taken from the
experience of those who by knowing
something Of Christian Science are
today confidently facing events and
circumstances that formerly we're an
ticipated with dread and apprehen-I
sion. The occurrences themselves
are unchanged, but their evil effects
are annulled.
Now every mans day is made bright
or dull, profitable or empty, good or
bad, not by what happens, but by how
he is affected by what happens.
Christian Science affords to each
one the means OF bringing into his
day just the brightness. progress and.
abundance Of good that he needs and
longs for.
Each day then Is, an empire and
each man must be either its emperor
or its slave. II is for him and him
alone to determine which he will be,
the slave of adverse circumstance
or the master Of its results. Mrs.
Eddy admonishes us in Science and
Health to meet every adverse cir
|cumstance as Its master. Not only
does she tell US this. but she also
shows us how It Is to be done: She
supplies not only the impulse, but
the method as we'll.
To rule the day wisely, justly, BEN
efficiently, we must begin It rightly.
Christian Science is showing men and
women in every walk of life that
there is no better way of beginning
each day than 10 launch it with q
prayer. Many Of these prayerful peo-
Die of today who have learned how.
to pray in Christian Science, rarely
prayed in days gone by, some OF ;
them never prayed, many came from
the ranks Of those who had long since1
ceased to pray, for their prayers had |
become as empty words, vain repeti.J
lions" stumbling from the lips inJ
stead of springing from the heart Tol
them the saying "a good way to make !
q good day is to start it with a pray
err" came like plausible tale that
has been disproved. Something that
sounded well, but did not work out in |
practice. But through Christian Sell
ence they have learned to pray
Alright, and now they are glad to tes-
tify from their own experience that
the prayer Of the righteous ayaileth |
much, the prayer wherein confidence
is coupled with humility, power with :
gentleness, and love with purity; the ],
prayer which is based upon the abso.
lutte knowledge that all good Is al !
ready given to man. 80
In Christian Science there are no
formal prayers for special occasions.
It has nc prayer book. The Lords
Prayer is repeated In unison at all :
Christian Science services, and be-
sides this there is one short prayer i
recommended for daily use. So simple |
is It, yet so reVerent in its phraseol-
ogy, so direct, yet universal in its in
illusions. SO free from every sugges-l
ton of sect or doctrine is it, that 1t
can be unreservedly used by any sin.
cere man or woman of any church or
Of no church. Here it is as Mrs. =,
Eddy has given It to US:
'"Thy Kingdom come! Let the
reign of divine Truth Life and Love
Re established In me, and rule out of
me all sin; and may Thy Word en-
rich the affections Of all mankind and
govern them" manual Art. VIII, Sec.
~ The day that is begun with this
prayer or any other equally unselfish
and uplifting, is sure to be a better,
hoolfb;or ond holior no.