Article January 9, 1904 Issue

The True Sense of Gratitude

S. A. PRICE.

"He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward."

He that receiveth a prophet in the name or character of a prophet, does so because he perceives that the prophecy is true and could have been uttered by no one less exalted than a prophet. This perception is of itself spiritual or prophetic vision and entitles the possessor to a prophet's reward—the understanding in some degree of the truth revealed.

It is thus seen that if we do not understand, at least in part, our Leader's relation to the cause of Christian Science, it is because we have not comprehended that Christian Science is a divine revelation, and thus we miss the reward of such knowledge. To say that Christian Science is divine revelation and yet not to love the Revelator and believe that her mission is divinely appointed, is to doubt God's wisdom in selecting the one through whom to give this great revelation to the world. To criticise her motives and acts is to expose our own egotism in attempting to judge one whom, in accepting Christian Science, we have acknowledged to be best fitted among all people for the place she fills.

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