Editorial November 20, 1943 Issue

Some Thoughts on Gratitude

Paul Stark Seeley

The gorgeous autumn sunset beyond the New Hampshire hills bound earth to sky with a band of quiet changing color that recalled Browning's descriptive lines,

Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles
Miles and miles.

Gratitude for the beautiful and good gladdened her heart. Dullness and indifference robbed his of these gifts of God. Conscious appreciation of the things about us that are useful, beautiful, and good helps to efface self, and unites thought to the source of all good, the one God. Said Cicero: "There is no quality that I would rather have ... than gratitude.... It is ... the mother of all the rest."

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