Gratitude
is not merely thankfulness expressed in words, nor is humility merely a modest, retiring demeanor, Gratitude and humility are conditions of enlightened thought; and they are complementary, for without humility there can be no true gratitude, and without gratitude no real humility.
On
page 3 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy our Leader makes an incisive statement: "If we are ungrateful for Life, Truth, and Love, and yet return thanks to God for all blessings, we are insincere and incur the sharp censure our Master pronounces on hypocrites.
When
Pope wrote, "Order is Heaven's first law," in the early eighteenth century, he set forth an axiom which has since been almost universally accepted.
