Editorial October 15, 1904 Issue

Count the Blessings

Let us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all around our path.

The subject of our experience meetings is of so much interest to the Field that a few additional thoughts respecting them cannot be amiss. The Christianizing influence of these meetings and of the testimonies given in our periodicals in becoming more and more evident; it is reaching many who are out in the darkness of sin and suffering, who have missed their way to the healing Christ, known of old and revealed anew in Christian Science. In the teaching we are constantly reminded that the demand of vital Christianity is the attainment of perfection in thought, word, and deed, and in striving for it we are assured in our text-book that "progress finally destroys all error" (Science and Health, p. 492). It is in this glorious hope that we toil on, even when progress seems very slow, for it gives assurance of final perfection in individual experience as well as in our churches, including, of course, our Wednesday meetings. As we gain a clearer sense of that which is most conductive to our advancement, we become conscious of better health, our thoughts are expressed with greater freedom, power, and grace, and if this be true of our daily experience our services will be correspondingly enriched.

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