Dear sister in Truth: Your helpful letter has been received and perused with deep interest. Though I have not been punctual in replying, its contents are ever before me. I appreciate the efforts the students are making, and the importance of the steps they are taking, to build our Mother Church, and we are not insensible to the great benefits received from the dear ones in Boston; nor are we ungrateful for all our blessings from our Sister City; and I assure you I will make an effort to do all I can.
Yes, I agree with you that the work is more and more fascinating. We would not go back if we could, and could not if we would. However much the waves, in seeming, may toss our boat about, we know the Father is at the helm. There is a silken cord, which can never be broken, pulling us towards the shores of Galilee, and there is sublimity in the storms, when we know that God is everywhere. It seems wonderful, when we think how man has been searching for God ever since error set up its false claim. As the search led men through the channels of regeneration, circumcision, baptism, prayer, atonement, and communion, there seemed to be a halt, and man could go no further with the matter.
Since Christian Science has budded and blossomed, the channel broadens and widens, giving to us the four great fundamental laws of spiritual development, Understanding, Demonstration, Revelation, Realization. The highest call, man is making to God now, is Realization. As I think further, I can see how Understanding opens the gate of Purity, Perception the gate of Beauty, Intuition the gate of Harmony, Hope the gate of Innocence, Faith the gate of Perfection, Justice the gate of Mercy, Charity the gate of Righteousness, and Love the gate of Peace. Every gate is a pearl, and these are the gates through which Christian Science is inviting us to enter, and drink of the Waters of Life freely.
