Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-12

II very clear TO the world that this
is a very sure method Of perpetnatng
disease and OF eradicating ones true
sense Of health. Since this method
has been in vogue diseases and fear
have multiplied and suffering has in
creased.
One OF the first lessons Of Christian
Science is to reverse this barbarous
habit of thinking. talking, End herald
Ing the symptoms of disease. There Is
nothing more enervating and democrat
izing than to magnify In thought some
phase OF evil which one would over.
come or destroy. Can the popular
evil of socalled disease germs ever
be eradicated without ceasing TO fear
it and without ceasing to hear, think
and talk about such subjects? Every
protesting Christian should know that
the mental image OF disease Is one
of his very worst enemies. and that
the Christ or true idea Of God comes
to rid him OF this enemy. He will then
recognize Christian Science as his best
friend and become stanch advocate
OF health and an opponent 81 disease.
He will study, think and talk about
the thing he wishes to experience,
and not about its opposite.
! There is lesson for US all In the
experience of the specialist who often
s1ccumbs to the very disease of which
he has made a speciality. Many OF us
4 also know the effects OF reading medE
cal works.
Why should humanity be loath 70
hear the truth about the action oe
! wrong thought and to take the neces-
sary steps to-correct IL? Why should
II be skeptical concerning the only
possible means of protection. from er.
rOneous beliefs? ..e.-.s
Protection
j Protection is divine, Lot human. The
law Of right is the only law Of protec-
/ ton. Only an ignorance Of God could
tempt one who Is doing wrong 10 ASK
for protection in his wrongdoing.
Truth does not protect error, Love
does not protect hate. Right thought
is no protection to wrong thought. but
when mortals repent, change their
mode of thinking. divine protection is
near at hand.
Mans inhumanity to man. is all
based upon misunderstanding OF
God and man. Can srch inhumanity
be done away with without correct
idea or understanding OF God:S Indeed
mot. No more than could a mistake
in computation be eliminated without
correct understanding Of numera-
ton. The right idea Of Love ID the
only remedy for fear or hate. The
study of hundred volumes OF human
dissertation on the subject OF revenge
would never overcome revenge.
Whatever Is inherently right. be-
ing a law unto Itself, Is its own pro
lection. Right thinking Is right pfac-
tise. Wrong thinking Is wrong or mai
practise. The one needs no protection,
the other could not have It II he
wanted 1t.
+ If Christian Science practises Is,
right,-and we know that 1t Is right
then no human legislation against 1t
can avail anything, since there island
can be no law against the operation
} Of Gods law. "A right idea ihx&etion
expresses the power, law and domin-
idn OF its Principle, God. 1t needs no
1 excuse for being about the Fathers
!, business, any more than does the sun
: for shining alike upon the just and
the unjust. S.ssssssg
!, Practitioner and Treatment
In Difference to the worlds ignor-
ance of Christian metaphysics we
speak of treatment and practitioner
in Christian Science. Students OF
: Christian Science who have expert.
enced healing and regeneration, who
have made thorough study OF our
Leaders works, and are loyal to her
teachings. are in a position to prove
, To others their understanding of the
Christ healing. Through what is
known as treatment hundreds Of per.
sons throughout the world are daily
being healed in Christian Science.
Such treatment is not the erroneous
influence of any form OF mesmerism
or hypnotism, of one human mind
over another, but Is the activity OK
the Word of God In human conscious
ness. II Is the mental approxeh or
coming OF the right idea OF God. IL
is the prayer that knows, instead OF
believes. what constitutes the king
dom of God in man.
I Many who are sufficiently purified
in thought and manner OF living to
express the right idea OF treatment,
and who can devote their time to such
work, are known as Christian Science
~ pTdcIlllO0eTSs their ullOoNl3A 10 nOs
primarily to effect physical healing,
but to bring to humanity scientific
understanding of God and His say
ing health" This right idea Of health
! acts as spiritual leaveu purging out
J of human copsc'ousness every errone-
Gus or uDholy thought.
: There is 15tfing more sacred than
J Treatment IN Chr'etisn Science, and
, the D-sctiticrer who lets God give
the treqirent is indeed true fol-
lower of the Christ. The real work OF
the practitioner is to purify his own
consciousness so that II may become
transparency for Truth to shine
through. He arrogates- no power to
himself. He INDUCES IN no self.
gIorificaticn. He judges no man.
] The practitioner is therefore no
mental freak or prodigy: be wins bis
laurels tIlrnpeh faithful Ysvsisr'atsc
| work. He Knows that sto wa-k e IN
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