The Wednesday meetings and the Thanksgiving Day services in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, throughout the world afford opportunities to Christian Scientists to give public testimony to the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science. To the student of this religion Thanksgiving Day is every day, for like Jehoiachin, king of Judah, he has been lifted out of prison and changed his prison garments. Of this king it is recorded (II Kings 25:30), "His allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life."
How grateful every Christian Scientist can be to have been lifted, even in a degree, out of the prisoning sense of life in matter and into the realm of spiritual realities, where God's love and mercy are, according to the testimony of the Psalmist, daily loading us with benefits.
It may seem at times to every individual that God has forsaken him, or that he has little or nothing to be grateful for. Such aggressive thoughts should immediately be recognized as evidence that the student has ceased to consistently practice his religion. He has in belief separated himself from the unlimited resources of ever-present good. Like the prodigal he needs to awaken, to desert the husks of apathy and materiality, and to return to his Father's house with its rich blessings of health, joy, and peace.
