It is a well-known fact that persons who are unwilling to show sufficient gratitude and appreciation to make compensation for the good they receive, are unworthy to obtain it, and therefore the effort to give it to them would be wasted.
[That the organ recital which was given in The Mother Church was considered one of the features of Boston's "Old Home Week," is apparent from the following.
Discouragement
springs from a sense of limitation and fear, a belief that good is not universal and supreme—that it is divided and limited, some here and some there, so to speak, but not enough to go around, and the fear arises that because of the supposed absence of good there is another power called evil, that can take something from us.
The
following incident well illustrates the fact that many people hesitate to read Christian Science literature or to discuss Christian Science with those familiar with its scope and aim because they are afraid their religious opinions may become unsettled.
