Letters & Conversations

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.

Writes a friend from Toledo, Ohio: I wish to thank you for the peace, joy, and strength I have received from reading your Unity of Good. With this I send you the book, Bethlehem to Jerusalem, feeling you understand the height and depth of that Life-journey better than anyone else.

WORK. Just now, as at all times, there is need of good and true work in the Cause of Christ; and where so many fields are open, there is no necessity for any to complain of lack of room.

WHAT IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE?   Dear Journal: You seem like such a dear friend, coming to see me every month, that if I could lift the burden of some poor mortal, or condemn some error in the flesh, I feel that I should be doing work for the Master, and returning your service to me. Jesus says that if we pray in secret, God will reward us openly.

SEEMING EVIL. Dear Journal : "Why are things thus?" is one of the questions jocosely put to one another by people every day.

RECEIVING AND GIVING. Says Saint Paul: "Every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

LOOKING OVER THE FIELD. Dear sister in Truth : Your helpful letter has been received and perused with deep interest.