Editorial November 22, 1924 Issue

"Be ye thankful"

Ella W. Hoag

No one in the world to-day responds to Paul's exhortation, "Be ye thankful," more readily than does he who has experienced some measure of the marvelous blessings which accrue to the beneficiary of Christian Science. Were he asked to recount the specific reasons for his gratitude, his tongue might even be temporarily mute before the great demand thus made upon it. He is willing to recognize with Daniel that it is not because of any righteousness which he has done, but because of God's great mercies that His wonderful goodness has thus been manifest; and he all the more adoringly thanks God with his whole heart.

It is not strange that the first thought of gratitude of one thus benefited should be thanksgiving for Christian Science itself; and yet were one to attempt to tell just why this is so, he might again be silent before the greatness of the opportunity. When blessings seem large and many, it is difficult to say just where to begin in the telling of them. The one benefited simply feels that this Science has opened to him the very gates of heaven. Such is almost invariably the experience of the one to whom the clear teaching and beneficent ministrations of Christian Science have commenced to appear with their healing, regenerative power!

When the almost overwhelming light of Christian Science first dawns, one can scarcely find words to express the gratitude awakened. It comes telling us that we may know and demonstrate the way out of all evil; that all sin and sickness and death, all sorrow and separation, all lack and limitation, may be proved unreal. Herein is offered the most marvelous possibilities. It seems as though it should be both easy and natural to turn squarely around from paths previously traversed towards evil, start in the opposite direction towards good, and continue to walk there.

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