Dear Friend: I am sorry that your unfavorable circumstances are made the source of so much trouble. You have yielded to temptation, and allowed the entrance into your heart of bitterness, impatience and irritability, which are very bad guests indeed. I am sorry for this, much more than for your circumstances. Oh! how many use unpleasant circumstances as an envenomed whip, and lash with it severely their own shoulders, and sometimes also their friends'. How insane, as well as sinful and cruel!
Dear friend! your trouble for the most part is self-induced, and thence a sin. You are foolishly sinning, perhaps through displeasure at the sins of others, because their sins oppose your mortal interests. You yield to the evil influence which creates dejection, ingratitude toward God, and precludes a cheery, helpful kindness toward your fellow creatures, and results in nervous prostration and various forms of debility and pain. I propose to treat you for this, and perhaps my treatment will be all the better for being done at a distance.
If you will also treat yourself with daily doses of Christian Science, and that liberally, it will do you much good. It will immensely heighten the goodness of Divine Providence, and improve the wisdom and kindness of your friends.
