Letters & Conversations

New York, July 7, 1892. My Very Dear Teacher :  Enclosed you will find one dollar for the Lake fund.

At the meeting of the National Association at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889, the motion was made and carried, that no graduate of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College should receive the students of another graduate, without consent of the first teacher. In case this consent could not be obtained, the only appeal must be to the National Association in Convention.

LET me call attention to the necessity for Scientists, on changing residence or leaving town, to have their card changed as soon as possible. I am a traveling man and, whenever I am over Sunday in a town where Scientists reside I would like to call and attend Services if any are held.

I Wish to add my testimony as to God's goodness in leading me to this new understanding of His nearness and power. I can look back over a life of disappointment, and see God's hand guiding me through dark hours, on to the blessed sunshine of His presence.

Housework used to be very irksome to me, but now I can say I like to skim the milk, and churn. The money I get for the little butter I have to sell I devote to Christian Science literature and work.

Ever since my arrival here, almost three months since, I have been in the attitude of thought shown in Wordsworth's words: "The gratitude of men hath ofttimes left me mourning. " It has been a constant astonishment to me to see how kindly people welcome the topic of Christian Science, and how ready they are to believe that there is good in it.

On thinking over a conversation I heard a few days ago concerning the former life of an acquaintance, I was very much disturbed and distressed, when these words came to me like a benediction: "Let him that is without sin cast the first stone. " What a rebuke! yet the words fell like balm upon my troubled heart.

It has been proven to me in the last few weeks, that if we have "named the name of Christ," we must rely upon the knowledge it brings, under all circumstances. Men came to wire the house for electric lights one Wednesday, accomplishing very little that day.

It will be five years next February, since I took the first course of instruction in Christian Science, for which I feel very grateful. Since then, I have taken the Primary lessons twice, in order to satisfy a desire for thoroughness in the letter.

I just want to tell you what a rut some of the Christian Scientists fall into by not taking the Journal. I do not exclude myself at all, for I ought to have subscribed for it two years ago.