Human
planning without seeking divine guidance in formulating plans is frequently found to be not only futile, but quite detrimental to progress along right lines.
When
Christ Jesus extended the invitation, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," it was probably addressed, primarily, to those who were oppressed by ecclesiastical laws as well as to those who were under the civil domination of the Romans.
When
Jesus prayed, in the following words, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us," he was proclaiming a divine universality which is the basic teaching of Christian Science.
THE
French word for gratitude—reconnaissance, recognition—serves to remind us of the true function of gratitude, which is the observance and acknowledgment of good.