The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-30
Appreciation A Suits
 Gratitude Perfectly
Peoples ThankuIness Should Extend Not Only to God
 But to All Who Followed His Ways

terial and limited fails to see or appreciate spiritual good, and thus It appears to be withheld.
 Christian Science is enabling mankind better to understand God. man, the universe, and the nature Of spiritual good, and thus receive the blessings God bestows on Ills children, and lose by degrees. the false sense of material limitations. Christian Science teaches that G0d gives life in abundance, and with 1t joy, health, peace, harmony. which aceords with James asser. ton; Every good gift and every perfect gift ts from above, and cometh down from the Father oe lights, with whom is no variable ness, neither shadow of turning"
 When confronted by Q seeminA lack of good, expressed in sickness, sorrow, sin, or limited supply. we turn to God, as we are taught in Christian Science to do, and through spiritual understa ndiny know that spiritual good is ever present. There are spiritual ideas present to replace every false be-. lief of limitation of good. Mere than an intellectual grasp of the letter of Christian scien6s is rs. quisite, for spiritual conviction of the verity, potency, invariable. ness Of spiritual ideas, is essential to establish them clearly enough in human consciousness that thelt essence and naturo may be mani. tested in what we call . demon. stration of supply.
 In her effort to apply the science of Christianity to her human needs the writer early learned that, whatever the trouble might ba, whenever she took her thought away from the error and fixed it on the spiritual truth that was being unfolded through the expo. rience, she then could consider the experience q blessing rather than . trying ordeal to be depioved. d. The reaching op this stage Os grasping the spiritual idea and holding thought to 1t, resulted in understanding It's deeper spiritual signiflcance; and thus right ap- preciatlon and gratitude helped to precipitate the demonstration of good.
 Malachi. rising to . pinnacle of spiritual appreciation of Gods willingness to give, and of Ills in. finite supply, which blegses man. kind when mon get near enough to God to receive His bounty, said, Bring ye all the tlthes into the storohouso, that there may be meat In mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if 1 will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out . blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive It." In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p 595) Mary akBer Eddy has defined "tlthe," n part, as gratitude" She has also said (ibid. pp. ., D, While the heart is far from divine Truth and Love, wo cannot conceal the in. gratitude of barren lives" Con- versely, she has revealed to us, oven as Malachi said, that through gratitude to God for things spirit. ual we may open tho very windows Of heaven and receivo unlimited blessings!
 But our gratitude should extend not only to God, the Qiver of all good, but to all those who have made 1t possible for us to know God--to prophets and patriarchs; to Christ Jesus, who com mplateiy rent tho veil that hid God from mankind; to his apostles who taught and practioed his teaching of the truth; and to Mrs Eddy, whose clear, spiritual discern ment of all that these had revealed, and whose closeness to divine Mind on. ablod the demonstrable revelation of God and man as forever insep. arabic.