Letters & Conversations

I want to say a word about the Bible Lessons, and the profit of writing them out. When the thought was first suggested, it seemed to me a striving to gain spirituality by material means; but finally, after the Journal had called attention to them more than once, I thought I would try it, and see how it would affect my thought.

A Personal Experience. The personal experiences, contributed to your pages, have been exceedingly helpful to me, and I venture to offer my mite, trusting it may be useful to others, as theirs have been to me.

To help lift some struggling one out of darkness into light, I want to tell you how I found the dear Christ, Truth. From my earliest recollections I was a sufferer, and at the age of ten became a cripple.

Germany. Is Science and Health translated, or to be translated, into the German language? How I desired such a copy in Berlin! where the opportunity was offered me, in connection with my landlady, to introduce Christian Science to her—the first she had ever heard the term used.

Christian Science in St. Joseph is slowly but surely gaining a firm foothold, and many who a year or six months ago were bitterly opposed, are now reaching out for the Truth.

Extracts from letters addressed to Rev. Mary B.

From the "Northwest. " The work is being started here in the smaller villages, as the result of a call from one who, having been brought out of bondage into the "glorious liberty "of the sons and daughters of God, wished that others might "know the doctrine" that sets us free.

Letter of Advice to a Friend. God indeed leads when we let Him; but, to have him lead, we must follow the narrow, straight road that Jesus the Christ has mapped out for us.

At Toronto, Canada, recently a Christian Scientist was applied to for treatment by a man already condemned by medical science to speedy death. He improved under the treatment, but receiving a visit from his minister, the latter urged calling a doctor.

"A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM. " Why do professing Scientists close their eyes to the "fact of being," drop back to the sense dream, and hold the children in the dream with them? I have read the suggestions, given in the Journal, regarding a Children's Quarterly, and have taken up the same error that many others must have allowed.