Editorial November 19, 1904 Issue

Thanksgiving

We give thee thanks, O Lord God almighty,... because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.—Revelation.

Our anniversary days come betimes and bring unfailingly messages from the past which point us to the heights beyond. Sometimes on the ascending path, thought is tempted to look back to the plane of sense, where perchance dear ones still linger, where we once sought peace and pleasure, but found only disappointment and defeat. With every such backward glance it would be well to recall the Master's words concerning the one who had started spiritward, "Let him... not return back. Remember Lot's wife."

In leaving behind the supposed treasures of mortality we lose, in fact, nothing but the sense which makes the unreal seem real; and if we ever entertain the suggestion that we have given up something for Truth's sake, we may be sure that such a belief is indeed "the measure of our imperfection." Rather should we give thanks that we have come to know materiality, at its best, as nothing more than a counterfeit of spiritual reality; and no one who is wise could lament such a discovery did he know that the real and perfect is within the reach of all God's children. Jesus illustrated this when he declared that those who had left all "for the kingdom of heaven's sake" should receive "manifold more in this present time" and "everlasting life," thus teaching that the unrealities of sense should be gladly and thankfully given up for the realities of Soul.

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