Christian Scientists are naturally deeply grateful to their beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for the gift of Christian Science. They fully appreciate the many problems she faced and her loving, unselfed sacrifice and labor in overcoming them with God's help to establish the Christian Science movement and all its activities. This gratitude is expressed in the many testimonies of healing which appear in the Christian Science periodicals and which are heard at Wednesday testimony meetings in Christian Science churches throughout the world. But it is sometimes well to pause and ask ourselves, "How really grateful am I?"
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: "Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more. Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of thanks. Action expresses more gratitude than speech." Science and Health, p. 3;
We all endeavor in some measure to express our gratitude by living and demonstrating day by day the divine Science which our Leader has given us. But are we doing all that we can do? Were our loved Leader personally present with us today to ask each of us individually to do something for her or the Cause, would we not, without hesitation, hasten to do it to the very best of our ability? Then what of her written requests or implied requests to each one of us? They are surely just as important and worthy of our attention and obedience. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy writes, "My desire is that every Christian Scientist, and as many others as possible, subscribe for and read our daily newspaper." My., pp. 352, 353;
