Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-10-07

We are sometimes asked by the
1t is bad because il is full of
deceit 1t is a great big fraud. It
tricks a man into believing he is a
failure, when success may be waiting
for him just around the corner. 1t
deludes him until he sees things
crooked and believes things about
himself and others that he knows
are not true. It robs him of
his courage, strips him of his abni-
ty and mumbles into his ears the
| awful lie that GCd has forgotten him.
Discouragement is dangerous be-
cause it is the entering wedge for
the evil thoughts that produce evil
deeds. 1t is the devils favorite tool
unrecognlzed as such by so many
and resisted by so few. 1t is a
noteworthy fact that outside of Chris
tian Sci ence there are very few who
shun discouragement as they would
sickness, adversely or failure, yet
it opens the way for all of these and
worse.
Now the man who is holding his
thought steadfastly to the things that
are enduring and good and true is
discovering that Christian Science
is offering to every one an antidote
forthe poison OF disbursement that
is swift i'm it's operation, and posi-
tive in its effects. 1t is something
that cannot be bought withmoney ye,
is as free as the sunshine and as
blessed as the summers rain. 1t
is called gratitude.
Do you know, my friends, that
gratitude Quenches the smoking fires
of Encouragement as the ocean does
a spark? And here let me say to
you that there is not d mani ON this
green earth to-day but who can
find something for which to be
grateful ito God, for if he will hunt
for it honestly and earnestly, and
,ghen found give it a place inE his
heart, he will see Encouragement
vanish like bat into the night.
The man who is learning to know
God has gratitude with him always,
hence encouragement makes no long
visits to his mental household.
GOOD ALWAYS CONSTRUCTIVE.
No two thoughts, one good and the
other evil, can prevail at the same
time in mans consciousness. 1t
is as impossible as it is for two di
verging lines to meet Good is al
ways the positive, evil the negative
good the constructive, evil the degeAl
erative; good the real, evil the UNI
real.
Every good thought held regerently
and steadiastly will improve, deVel2
op and multiply and bring others OF
It's kind.
Naturally, the beginner viii ask
what things are specifically com
mended upon which to fasten con
structiVe thought what are the things
that are enduring, good and true.
The two text books of Christian
Science, the Bible and Science and
HeaQth, are replete with the things
of God, and to Him belongs andfrom
Him proceeds all things that are
enduring, good, and true. In Phil
ipians AS thatgreat demonstrator of
right thinking, Paul of Tansus, indi-
Gates number of heIptul subjects
-ut which thought may be profit
ably centered. He there says,
Whatsoever things are true, what
soeyer things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever things are love
ly, whatsoever things are OF good re-
port if there be any virtue, and there
be any praise, think on these things.
From the various writings of the
DiscoVerer and Founder of Christian
Science, Mary Baker Eddy, have also
come many helpful aids to right
thinking. In a short letter written