Article July 5, 1900 Issue

Much to be Thankful for

BY MRS. EVA N. SWENSON

"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," and my heart should be very full of thanksgiving for this blessed Truth as revealed to us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." It has brought to me everything good. After searching through all the hedges and by-paths to find out God, I was pointed to a straight and narrow way, where I truly found all that was promised and much more than I had ever dared to hope for here. I saw it was the way and determined to walk therein, but I found I must work, watch, and pray every step of the way. Surely these are the footsteps of Truth we find in Science and Health, but it has been blessed and profitable, for it has shown me myself, my duty, and how to work out my own salvation.

Our Mother in Israel has given us strong thoughts in her pamphlet entitled, "Christian Healing." They have been very helpful to me of late. I have seen them so much clearer than ever before. One sentence has come to me very forcibly, and has shown me how extremely watchful we need to be of our thoughts. She says, "This truth is, that we are to work out our own salvation, and to meet the responsibility of our own thoughts and acts." Thus we find that our work lies within ourselves. How prone we are to wish we might change some person who to our sense seems to be doing wrong. When we see them as God's perfect child, then shall we help them to see it for themselves. How often the words of the Master come to me when I find myself wondering why some do not seem to grasp Christian Science, "What is that to thee, follow thou me." I find I must not be watching what another is doing but strive to obey. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." "The curse causeless cannot come." The Scripture says, "And there shall be no more curse." When we live so our thoughts and acts can cause no more curse, there can be no more curse, neither sin, sickness, nor death. Then shall we behold the new heaven and the new earth, for there shall be no more sea (error), for the former things have passed away.

How clear the Scriptures seem to us when the searchlight of Christian Science is turned upon them. Often when reading the Bible I seem to be with the disciples amid the scenes where Jesus strove to open blind eyes and cause deaf ears to hear. How my heart goes out to our dear Mother when I think of her patience amid so many trials, her great and grand work to bring the bread of life to her hungry children. I ask every day that I may never forget my duty to God, to our Leader, and humanity. It is such a blessing to know that we have carried a crumb to even one hungry child of God. It is our privilege to feed many. How watchful we should be never to miss an opportunity to say a word of Good that may cheer a heart already struggling along the way, or that may help some poor wanderer to find the straight and narrow path. Let us strive to be cheerful, always ready with a smile and kind word. We never can tell how one little act for Good may help one of His little ones. Christian Scientists have, it seems to me, everything to be thankful for.

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