Many
students of the Bible have apparently been unaware of the fact that there is to be found in the Holy Scriptures what might well be thought of as an eleventh commandment — the command to be grateful.
"Forgetting
those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
WHAT
a fullness of rejoicing the word "thanksgiving" elicits! As we remember the good that has come to us in every day of our lives, thought naturally turns to the great Giver of all good and the unchanging, tender love and care of our Father-Mother God, who is the source of all our blessings.
Truly
a mighty occasion for gratitude to all students of Christian Science is the recent completion of the beautiful and adequate new Publishing House.
Sweet
mount of prayer! With earliest morning lightMy waking thought with joy ascends to thee;Within thy quietude I seek God's face,And always find Him waiting there for me,Waiting to gird me with His strength and power;He knows my need, and that throughout the dayMy trusting heart will turn to Him each hour,And seek His loving counsel all the way.
In the April 22 edition of your paper, under the caption "Told by Telegraph," a New York lady is reported to have said in reply to a query as to whether or not she was still a philosophical anarchist: "I am an anarchist, just a plain anarchist.
Your courageous publication deserves support, and it is with no thought of unfriendly criticism, but to prevent possible misunderstanding, that I am now writing to correct mistaken statements about Christian Science which appeared in the article "Debunking Chiropractic" in your May 7 issue.
Bring
low my mount of selfishness, O God,Exalt the darkened valley, till a roadLofty but level, smooth and straight, appears—Thy highway, where my humbled, following feetMay tread henceforth in lightness; where the tearsWill rise no more, and where my soul,Freed from the phantoms of the mortal load,In selfless journeying may find its peace.
In all humility I wish to express gratitude for the many beautiful blessings that have come to me as a result of the study and application of Christian Science, and for the blessing of having never known anything but this wonderful truth.
I did not take up the study of Christian Science in the first place for physical healing, as no one I knew believed in it or was in accord with its teachings.
I come,
dear Lord, with this first fall of snowTo lift my heart in tender prayer for themWho have great need, and yet who do not knowThe way to touch the Master's garment hem.
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