"O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and
fear
No ill,—since God is good, and loss is
gain."
(Poems by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 4.)
A young student of Christian Science became deeply interested in the message of every line of this stanza, and she found in it a helpful guide for spiritual practice. For many years her lot had been scalding tears, deferred hope, ingratitude, disdain, hate, and loss. But now she was enabled through the inspiration of this prayer to reverse scientifically the material seeming, and to launch her little boat safely in spite of storm and wave.
