November 24, 1923
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The
American people, from their earliest days, have observed the wise custom of acknowledging each year the bounty with which Divine Providence has favored them.
Have
we adequate authority for continuously enjoying the satisfaction of living?
To
the earnest Christian Scientist, striving daily for a higher understanding of Truth, the words "giving," "getting," "receiving," "withholding," have a contrasted meaning which enlarges with continued thought.
How
many of us have had the experience, after patient waiting and working, of receiving certain victories from the heavenly Father for which we gave thanks at first, but which we soon began to look at critically, and before long came to doubt were victories from God at all, regarding them rather, perhaps, as steps in the wrong direction, which might involve us in difficulties! Possibly Peter felt thus when, after he had started to walk on the water toward the Master, the waves became boisterous.
Paul
says, "Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Reading
in Exodus of the deliverance of the children of Israel from the pursuing Egyptians, one must needs rejoice over this glimpse of the power and presence of God in the face of seemingly insurmountable difficulties.
Oh,
lift thy voice to God in praiseFor starlit nights and radiant days,For harvest fields with bounty spread—Earth's symbol of "our daily bread.
Christian Science is practical, spiritual Christianity.
A consistent and unprejudiced reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy will show that Christian Science is a religion.
Isaiah warned those of his time against enchantments, sorceries, astrologers, stargazers, and monthly prognosticators.
Christian Scientists are trying to follow Christ Jesus in all his teachings.
There is not the slightest resemblance between the teachings of the Christian Science religion and spiritualism; in fact, so important did Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, consider the necessity for making plain the distinction between Christian Science and spiritualism that she devoted an entire chapter to the subject in her major work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," under the title "Christian Science Versus Spiritualism.
The following letter from our revered Leader to The Christian Science Board of Directors, first published in the Sentinel of August 22, 1914, is again shared with the field because of the pertinency of its wise counsel to all Christian Scientists:—
The
reader of the Psalms is deeply impressed with the spirit of praise and thanksgiving pervading them.
On
first consideration it may not be apparent how trials can be proofs of God's care.
It
is scarcely strange that thankfulness and gratitude should often be considered synonymously, since their nature is so interrelated.
With the desire to help others who may be suffering as I was, I am led to write something of a healing I experienced in Christian Science from a severe condition of heart disease.
As a family, we had lived for many years in bondage to sickness and fear.
As one who has had the mental companionship of Christian Science through the years of adolescence and has used it through five years of college student life, I am happy to be able to testify of what this religion of divine Principle can mean to a young man during these formative periods.
One great healing in my life stands out so clearly and definitely that it would come under the human sense of miracle; but in Christian Science we know such a healing is only a natural demonstration of divine power.
I am deeply grateful for Christian Science, and for all it has done for me spiritually as well as physically.
Christian Science first came to my attention when, as a young girl, I visited a relative in a city where its teachings had been established.
The healing of one of my sisters, several years ago, of a throat trouble of long standing attracted my attention to Christian Science.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
It is with deep gratitude that I offer the testimony of my healing in Christian Science.
I am so grateful for what Christian Science has done for me, especially for the wonderful spiritual uplift.
Christian Science came to me because of the earnest desire to be freed from the despairing, sick, and sinful beliefs that bound me; it came as light in darkness, and it healed me.
