To the Editor Christian Science Journal: In studying Christian Science, I found quite a stumblingblock, when informed that Soul, or Spirit, was not in the body. It was so distinctly contrary to all theological teachings and Biblical knowledge, which I had been taught in Sunday-school and University, that I at once concluded that I could never make that clear to myself; for I never could believe anything so opposite to all commentators' teachings and writings of learned scholars, ripe in traditional and Biblical lore. While pondering the subject, and endeavoring to fully understand it—trying faithfully to cast aside old opinions which held me in bondage, and with a sincere desire that light might come to me and make all plain—I quietly dropped into peaceful slumber, and the following dream took possession of my dormant faculties.
I was surrounded by several masked men—giants. Two of them approached me in a menacing attitude. Not a word was spoken; but by their manners and actions I concluded that they intended harm. They came so close to me, with raised arms and clinched fists, that I involuntarily raised my hands to push them from me. To my complete amazement one hand passed entirely through one giant, and the other hand through the other. It was like thrusting one's hand through a shadow or the air.
While standing confounded at this stage of affairs, a thought came to me, and said: "Now you see and realize for yourself the entire nothingness of body. Doubt no longer!" The giants vanished. I awoke at once, and the impressions conveyed to me were so vividly impressed upon my mind that I found no difficulty in accepting the teaching which had heretofore troubled me. Since then the experience has been of incalculable benefit to me.
