Letters to the Journal from our readers. Opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of The Christian Science Journal.
Letters & Conversations
I would like to make a suggestion regarding our proposed hymn book. It is written in "The Way," that "the harvest hour has come, and songs should ascend from the mount of Revelation sweeter than the sound of vintage bells to villagers on the Rhine.
An attempt was made to start the work of Christian Science in Rochester in the spring of 1886; but it was not fully established until the spring of 1887. The people being conservative, success was then attained only through the full determination of its followers, God with them, to plant it there at whatever cost.
The Way Christian Science Reached Our Home. Three years last August, there appeared in our little daughter of eight years what the senses call Corea , or St.
A student of Science came to Miami County in August, 1887, and did good work in healing; but the people were not yet ready for Science, and he was obliged to return to Kansas where he could find more to do. He felt he had planted good seed, however, that in due time would yield an abundant harvest.
A Scientist's Letter to a Patient. All students of mental science centre and agree on one point, namely: that all real existence is Mind and Thought.
Early in September, 1888, a wonderful demonstration of the healing power of Truth so aroused the people of Pompey Hill and vicinity that it was deemed best to send a healer to this locality. So urgent seemed the need, that a Scientist was by telegraph summoned from Brooklyn, N.
Dear Journal . —You come to us each month full of helpful thought and inspiration.
Paris. I have been a "communicant of the church" since thirteen years of age, in mortal belief, but have ever demanded more of Christianity than serves to satisfy many.
From a child I never was well, but the last twenty years were dark ones to think of. Kidney and heart trouble in a very bad form caused the most skilful physicians to pronounce my case incurable.
Dear Journal :—In a former number of the Journal appeared an article asking all Scientists to insert their cards, if only for the benefit of travellers far from home, in belief of trouble or sickness. At the time, I thought immediately to comply; but feeling that I might seem to be farther advanced in the work than I really am; also knowing others here who have demonstrated Truth in so much higher degree, yet who do not advertise, I neglected to do so.