Article March 29, 1900 Issue

An Expression of Gratitude

BY EMILE ROUNSEVEL

In a recent number of our Sentinel I noticed a tribute of gratitude to the pioneer Scientists. I desire to give expression to my sense of the debt of gratitude we owe to the pioneer Scientist, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the pioneer Scientists.

It is like the debt of gratitude we owe our forefathers, among whom was my grandfather. When they entered the New England States they found a vast and dense wilderness. With scarcely anything but their two hands with which to build homes from standing trees, to clothe their families, and to feed them with the produce to be raised from the ground not yet prepared. These families were often composed of a wife and twelve or fourteen children. I have been told of their going thirty and fifty miles for a bag of salt (a firmly fixed belief is that mankind cannot exist without salt), returning with it upon their backs, making a trip of sixty or one hundred miles on foot.

This vast wilderness has nearly disappeared. Comfortable homes, from the most luxurious to the humblest, are spread all over New England, even to the base of Mount Washington, that towers above the whole presidential range of the White Mountains, named for the pioneer general who led the army that fought for the freedom of our beloved country. In the valley just below is a little Christian Science Church. Right at our door within easy reach is clothing, food, and salt for all. How easy for a young man entering into the labors of our forefathers, to build for himself and family a home, feed and clothe them in this day of civilization. Thanks to our forefathers.

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