Article January 11, 1958 Issue

WHAT IS GRATITUDE?

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Gratitude has an important place in the life of a Christian Scientist. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. XVII, Sect. 2), "Gratitude and love should abide in every heart each day of all the years."

How may we express gratitude more fully and enjoy its blessing? Mrs. Eddy uses a symbol to clarify its meaning. She says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 164), "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."

A "camera obscura," according to a dictionary, is "a darkened chamber having an aperture (usually provided with a lens) through which light from external objects enters to form an image on the surface opposite."

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