In thousands of hearts in countless places over the known world an upsurging of praise rises in fuller and fuller volume to certify the might, wisdom, and presence of God as revealed in Christian Science. That this revelation of assurance is finding further acceptance and practical fruition is given acknowledgment repeatedly by those whom it has blessed, through the earnest assertion, "I am grateful for Christian Science." These six words echo round the world through the highways and byways and on the mountainsides.
Various avenues of approach have led and are leading the children of men to the practical sources of divine good as plainly set forth in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Sickness and pain have roused many to a readiness for spiritual thinking. The misery of sin, the ravaging of false appetite, the heaviness of sorrow, the fears of deprivation and death, have again and again turned thought to something higher and more effective than the merely mortal and material. Concern and care for a loved one have often urged the investigation of Christianly scientific means. And numberless times troubled hearts have been awakened to surprised questioning and interested seeking by hearing the six words, "I am grateful for Christian Science." Then as the wideness of God's mercy is shown forth in the operative power of divine law and the inquirer becomes a student of Christian Science, he adds his own expression of thanks to God for this truth and for Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder.
A young woman inquiring into Christian Science rebelled at an estimate of God as good. She said: "Either God isn't good, or He doesn't govern. Otherwise there would be no war." She was asked to think for a moment of all the mistakes on school blackboards and papers, also in household accounts and even at times in business accounting. When the question was submitted as to the verity, soundness, and extent of the principle of mathematics, she agreed that it is an unwavering principle and that it governs the science of mathematics at all times. The principle, obviously, was not responsible for the errors, nor for the consequences of the adoption of any of those errors.
