Letters & Conversations

Dear Mother of Truth : The most blessed of women! Oh, how I long to sit under the sound of your voice and hear the Truth that comes to you from on high, for none could speak such wondrous thoughts as have come from your pen, except it be "the Spirit that speaketh in you. " Two years ago last October, while laboring under a great strain of care and anxiety in regard to financial affairs, I heard of "Christian Science.

LET THE CHILDREN TEACH Our little boy about four years old, and our little girl about two, have never seen a drop of medicine, nor do they know what it is or what it means. Last summer the little boy told his mamma how he had told his little sister that he felt bad.

GOOD WORK IN TAMA. I have just been reading your work entitled Science and Health, and have become most wonderfully interested in its perusal, for it seems to fill a long-felt want in my very being.

DIAGNOSES AND INVOCATION. Dear Brother: I have been frequently asked, How do you diagnosticate a case? and I have been berated severely for my wrong diagnosis.

In future, all letters and communications should he addressed to E. J.

MRS. GESTEFELD'S LECTURES Dear Madam: I have just finished reading Mrs.

NOTHING OR SOMETHING How often I hear the question: Is nothing being done for her? Are you giving her nothing? Is it nothing to make a spring in the face of mortal thought, of sin, sickness, and death? Is it nothing, while with one hand we hold down the demon, materialism, with the other to lead the sufferer to her birthright, her spiritual home with God? I wish all who speak thus heedlessly might stand for one week, as these sturdy pioneers must stand, alone with God. I wish they would come out from the people who turn their hands against them, taking umbrage at the new, and hold a patient in spiritual thought, and see if they call that nothing, which raises the sick.

INDIANA SYMPATHY. My dear Mrs.

AN EDITOR REBUKED [From a letter to ALBERT B. DORMAN Editor Messenger of Truth, Worcester Mass.

OUR DUTY We can no longer say people are not ready to receive the Truth, for there is a large class who are really hungering and thirsting for a higher and more practical standard of Christianity than they now enjoy; and unbelievers are waiting to be convinced that the religion of Jesus Christ is not a picture of the imagination, but a practical, every-day reality. All they want is the assurance that this system is not a humbug, not a new-fangled ism or ology, but Truth that can be demonstrated.