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. I can not express to you, in words, the good it has done me, for they are inadequate. I have improved in mind and body constantly, since reading it, and am so anxious to know more of its workings.
Please let me know if there is any way I can work in this new vineyard for the Lord; for my heart's desire is to be healed in this new and lasting way, and then to heal others.
I well know that the world will have to be educated up to this high standard. Can I not help in this glorious work for God and humanity? We have Christian healers in Chicago, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, and various other places, but I would much prefer receiving instruction from the fountain-head.
I have the firm convictions and beliefs of my New England ancestors, being a descendant of Rev. Humphrey Morse (my grandfather) of Milford, N. H. Having been born in the good old Granite State, my heart is still in the home of my childhood, and I gladly welcome this sign of progress, coming as it does from the East.
WORK IN CHICAGO.
How can I thank you enough for the Truth you have given us, showing us a Life wherein we can have harmony. I was indeed in despair, when Mrs. Spaulding came to the rescue and healed me, afterward teaching me the Science, whose knowledge is more precious to me than gold; and now I feel that I have something worth living for. I am perfectly well, and able to keep my family well.
A MESSAGE FROM LANCASTER.
Dear Journal: It has not been my custom to take testimonials from patients, but am now convinced that it is well to do so in some cases. It does the patient good to make a confession of the benefit he has received. I send you a copy of a testimonial which appeared in a German paper here, inserted by one of my patients.
I want to tell you of the great benefit I have received from treatment by Mrs. Evans, the Christian Science healer who is located at the Stevens House. She came to me when I was unable to wait upon myself, or to be at all comfortable. I was suffering with severe sickness, from which the best physicians here and in Germany had failed to heal me, my trouble being a complication of many diseases. Mrs. Evans gave me no medicine, but treated me mentally. I gained strength rapidly, and in one week was able to work about the house, feeling like a new being, and I have my benefactress to thank for all this.
I feel it just to add that my quick cures are the exception, and not the rule. I can not depend upon the application I am able to make of the understanding I now have of the Truth, to bring about a quick cure every time. Hence my constant desire, every waking hour, is for a saving understanding so great that there may be no delay, and that my efforts to wipe away the mistaken beliefs, which seem to hold in bondage those who call on me for help, may assist them at once to realize that they are free indeed. I have been here two weeks, and as yet am doing nothing but charity work. I can not say what I may be able to do to interest the people in the most beautiful and most satisfactory study that has as yet appeared in the world, — the most beautiful, because it takes us from a world of sense into one of Love and Truth, — most satisfactory, because it gives us a peaceful mind and a healthy body under all circumstances, however severe the trial. The Mind-remedy can be depended upon; and later, when it all comes clear to us, that the trial has been a most effectual developer mentally and spiritually, we count it all good, and realize that the Truth works for us in a mysterious way sometimes.
There is never a day when I do not thank our Father for this wonderful understanding, which our Teacher has worked so hard to present to the people for their use. I sometimes wonder if she ever would have taken a patient to heal or written an article, had she known what she must encounter; but am sure she would, for Truth will out.
STERLING WORTH.
Dear Journal: I take pleasure in telling the world what good Christian Science has done for me and mine, and the good Mrs. Geo. Lancaster, whom we consider the Christian Scientist pioneer of this State, is doing for mankind. I should be glad to relate what I know of her wonderful and successful work, but I know it will take up too much space, and so I will content myself with making this statement; but if anyone wants me to particularize, I shall take great pleasure in doing so.
Mount Sterling, N. Y.
THE NEW COMMUNION.
Why I write you this I know not, unless it is because we like to express our thoughts to those who we think will understand us, and have charity for our want of understanding. Next Sunday will be Communion Sunday at the Church of Christ (Scientist) Chicago, which I attend; and this question comes up before me today, as it did when I was a little child, learning the old Church Catechism: What is required of those who come to the Lord's Supper? — Answer. To examine themselves, whether they repent them truly of their former sins, steadfastly purposing to lead a new life.
I was a communicant in the Orthodox Church for a number of years, and preparatory to communion always examined myself, and steadfastly purposed to lead a new life; but I could never see that my life was very different, after all. Since I have come into the understanding of Life, I can see the cause of my many failures in our old belief. In Christian Science we must examine ourselves, whether we are forsaking our former sins. If so, we are progressing spiritually. Are we rising daily to higher and holier being? If so, then are we feeding on the bread which came down from Heaven through Christ, and are partakers of the wine which sustained and inspired Jesus in his mission; and it will sustain us, if we eat and drink it worthily. Oh what sweet communion! It is the very essence of Christianity, or Christian Science.
Oh Heavenly Father, teach me to examine myself, that there be nothing hidden in me that should not be revealed.
METHODIST FERVENCY.
In Christ's Truth you will allow me to write you a short letter. I know that you will read it, because you are all Love, and have the Mind that was in Christ.
In the past two years we have had good and great work done; but oh, how I do wish our leaders understood Christian Science as taught in Science and Health. How much better their work would be. When I think of the depth and height of the Science, as taught in Science and Health, I long to have everybody understand it. I have read and studied it for the past two years, and when I sit alone in my chair to read, I do not read very long until I am raised right up from my seat; and the glory and joy and peace no tongue can describe. Vanderbilt's wealth could not buy it of me, if I could not get another copy.
I am the only Christian Scientist in this town. On the Sundays of July 15 and 22 I held Christian Science meetings in the parlors, — the first Christian Science meetings ever held in Storm Lake. God was with me in Spirit, and in the very beauty of holiness. He gave me the living seed of the Spirit to sow, and that seed never dies.
Oh how I hope to be able to visit you some time. I can think of your goodness, and I know that you will send me and my family of boys and girls good strong thoughts, so that I may be able to sow more of the good seed of Christian Science.
If you knew what I have had to stand since I have been a Christian Scientist, you would help me along in this pioneer country. I grow more and more into the understanding of the Science every day, and nothing can shake my faith in it. I could go to the stake for it. The people I met in Chicago last winter are so good and free from selfishness, that but for my children I should go to Chicago for good, to mingle with tin: friends there.
Your Christian Science Journal is first-class. There is no sin, sickness, or death in Christian Science. God bless you forever.
God is goodness, both in its essence and in its action. His Spirit, His will, His wisdom, His laws, His works, His rewards and His punishments, His grace, salvation, and perfection, and all that He is or does, proceed from Love.
