Article August 20, 1938 Issue

Gratitude

ALICE ODDY

Every Christian Scientist has recognized in some measure the great value of gratitude to God as essential to healing. The one in need of healing, however, may still be thinking that much gratitude will be expressed when the longed-for healing has taken place, but that at present there is nothing for which to be especially grateful.

As, through Christian Science, the student learns to examine his thought for the purpose of testing its quality and origin, his thought is corrected by the truth. Thus it is proved to him that sickness was not the so-called cause of ingratitude, but vice versa. Not that one should be grateful for sickness, but that he should turn away from it to the contemplation of spiritual reality, away from the belief of so-called life in matter to the true understanding of Life, God.

On page 593 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy defines "salvation" as follows: "Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed." Life, Truth, and Love eternally reign supreme, even though sin, sickness, and death appear to material sense. Christian Science has revealed these wonderful facts, destroying the suffering which results from ignorance of God. As one bases his thinking on the true, scientific statement that Life, Truth, and Love are now and always were supreme, one's gratitude for the revelation of God asserts itself and constantly increases.

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