Gratitude
for the freedom gained through Christian Science awakens those who have been released from fetters of ignorance, fear, disease, and sin to learn more about its Christlike teachings and to devote their lives to the extension of its good works; in short, to be laborers in the Master's vineyard.
When
they established Thanksgiving Day, the Pilgrim Fathers, thankful to God for having brought them through what seemed a most perilous year, expressed their gratitude for the harvest of corn, as well as for the divine presence which they knew was with them.
At
this season of the year, when the harvest has been gathered in, the thoughts of our forefathers turned toward God with thanksgiving for the blessings of plenty and provision against the needs of winter.
William A. Gilchrist, Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada,
Your issue of June 8 contained a letter from a clergyman taking issue with some of the remarks made in my letter of June 1, correcting misleading statements made about Christian Science in a report of one of his recent sermons.
John G. Sumner, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,
In reply to the letter in to-day's issue from an archdeacon, I should like to say that I have the utmost sympathy with what I believe to be the archdeacon's kind, religious surveillance.
Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,
A letter quoted in an article entitled "Churches and Sincerity," in the issue of your paper of August 10, refers to "pulpits that go so far as to proclaim that there is no sin, no suffering, and no evil in the world.
In
the one hundred and seventh psalm we read: "They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
