"What
is gratitude but a powerful camera obscura, a thing focusing light where love, memory, and all within the human heart is present to manifest light.
Accept
the harvest of our hearts,O God, who giveth good to all,Our ceaseless gratitude and trust,Our promptness to obey each callOf wisdom as we serve but Thee,Searching no other Mind than Thine.
Contrasting
the simple, conscientious purpose of the Pilgrim Fathers in her own land with the defeated ambition and lost glory of ancient dynasties, Mary Baker Eddy says in "Pulpit and Press".
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Testimonies in our periodicals have for many years been a source of encouragement and help to me, and it is my hope that this testimony will help others.
It is with a heart full of love and gratitude that I offer this humble testimony, hoping that it will bring to the seeker of Truth a spiritual awakening.
Emmy Wildermuth
with contributions from Christian Hagstotz
I should like to express my gratitude for a healing of heart disease from which I suffered for many years and which kept me in bed for months at a time.
Only when I attended a Christian Science church service did I realize what satisfaction and peace could be mine, even though I did not understand much of what I heard.
Elma P. Erickson
with contributions from Mabel Lou Fiddyment, Dove T. Robbins
Never was I more grateful for the healing truths of Christian Science than in September, 1945, when we received word from the United States War Department that our son had been killed when the plane in which he was a passenger crashed on Okinawa.