Editorial May 30, 1925 Issue

A Jubilee Year

Ella W. Hoag

When at God's command to Moses a jubilee year was instituted for the children of Israel, it was probably done largely because of the good that would accrue to these people through their recognizing, at least once in fifty years, the importance of an especial season of thanksgiving to God for the blessings they as a people had received. In connection with this observance they were enjoined to insure a sense of gratitude among all classes by liberating slaves and restoring alienated lands. The time was therefore to be one of general freedom and rejoicing, and the door to better and higher conditions was thereby opened for all.

While Christian Scientists as a general rule do not set aside stipulated periods for certain observances, and while they are not apt to place one time prominently above another as unique opportunity for thanksgiving to God, nevertheless they realize the wisdom of embracing every possible occasion for calling their own attention to a renewed activity in counting their blessings and for reconsecrating themselves to a larger, fuller obedience and loyalty to God, the Giver of all good.

Now the custom among God's acknowledged peoples in Moses' day of observing a jubilee year undoubtedly brought growth and spiritual advancement to them both individually and collectively. How much greater, then, must be the beneficial result from an awakening among Christian Scientists to an intelligent understanding of a true jubilee of gratitude; and for what should they be more deeply grateful than for the incomparable blessings bestowed upon them and the entire world through their wonderful textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy?

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