Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-03-17
ENCOURAGEMENT

beautify the affairs of all who enter
them.
ENCOURAGEMENT
Christian Science brings the Truth
to human comprehension, gives
freedom from whatever enslaves and
thus hestows mental, moral and
physical liberty In the process of
liberation it sits out certain per-
nicious practises and propensities,
generally regarded as harmless, DRt
which are to be Stunned as allies of
evil. lit shows us that we have in
dulged in moods and inclinstions that
we believe were guileless, if not COM
mendaole, but were in reality neither
wise nor harmless. We find we have
been warming in the incubator of our
favor the eggs of serpents that we be-
lieved belonged to doves. Perhaps
the most common Of disease inviting
habits of thought is Encouragement.
dare-say we have all been on init
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other, and while we have never found
it cheerful company, we have not
looked upon it as sinister visitor
Yet that is just what Christian
Science shows 1t to be.
Discouragement wears the invisible
livery of evil and is constantly and
consistently working for its master.
1t is always pulling down and never
building up.
Did you ever know any one to ac-
coGplish anything worth while when
in the grip of Encouragement? 1t
paralyzes effort, stapefes thought and
dissipates purpose.
There is q ridiculcls side also to the
condition of the ma1 who is mentally
sick abed with bad case Of discourage
ment. He is only happy when lie
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 con-
tinually stumbling into the two
extremes of self-justificasion and self
condemnation. Both are bad: beth
are modelled after plans drawn in TIN
devils workshop: both are Obstructive
to progress. Self-condelnnation digs
hole: self-justitication sets upa pole,
and no man can go very far in any
right direction when he is either
crotiched in the bottom of a hole or
perched on the top of pole. Man is
endowed with nohler qualities 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
ami down from the pole of self-just-
iticttion on to the level ground of ur-
selfed endeavor if he would progress
in Christian Science.
More than all of this Christian
Science discloses that the man
hatitually discouraged is not only an
inviting target for disease, but is al
ready stripped with the colors of I'M
belief, for he gloOmily distrusts tile
power and goodness of God himself.
This may startle some Of you who are
accustomed TO let yourselves be robbed
of your courage discouraged land 10
slice INCREASINGLY into the bilious
depths of the ''bues" VIXEN things no
wrong The Christian world is full Of
Goi-fearing and truth-loving people
who yield readily to discouragement
because they have not yet discovered
where it comes from sn! ahat is back
of It, They do not see that it is but
the advance agent of evil itself. A
familiar fable of fok-loye will per
haps illustrate this point.
Ii was once announced that the
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 were all attrlc-
lively displayed, and a bad looking ct J
they were. Malice, envy. hatred,
jealousy, sensuality, des,eit an0SSll the |
other implements of evil were spread |
OUT each marked with its price.
Apart from tie rest lily harmless
looking wedge-shaped tool. much |
worn and priced higher titan any of /
chem.
Some one asked the devil what it
was That's discouragement,- was
the reply. sWelI. why do you have
it priced 80 high p I Because, . re-
piled the devil, IN is a more useful TO
nj. than any of the Others. can pry
open and get inside of mans con-