My little daughter, seven years of age, wrote me:
"Little cousin says there is a hell. I told her it was her bad thoughts."
Though over fifty, I love to play with children. I understand only such as come like children can enter the kingdom of heaven. I love children.
I go about my earthly business, and try to preach the Gospel, and heal the sick, without price, by "going about" doing whatsoever my hand findeth to do with all my might; no care for the body or for to-morrow; wife, children, all near me, in perfect health, and happier than tongue can tell.
More than one hundred persons say they have given up profane swearing through my influence. This has been done by my telling them how much better they really were than they made themselves appear.
I have had many wonderful demonstrations. I passed from the extreme east end of Nova Scotia to Victoria, B. C, on business within four months' time, last summer and fall; distributed all the books on Christian Science I could get, and sowed all the seed I could, even through Indian missionaries.
I have had no course of lessons in Christian Science, but I stick tenaciously to Science and Health as my text book. And I feel sure I have advertised Truth in its childlike simplicity, so that when it comes that way again, through whatever symbol, it will be recognized.
I am ready and glad to devote all to Christian Science, but feel that so long as I have an agreement to fulfil in a business way, I am bound to do it faithfully. As I am in eternity (not time), there is no hurry.
Many preach to prepare men for eternity, which, they say, comes at death; so it does, but at the death or end of such error as a belief in death.
I believe being at all is being perfect, even as the Father in heaven is perfect, and there is no real existence aside from His perfect existence. All are inspired, because in Him they live, move, and have being.
All we have to do is to show them this, and that all alike so live, and therefore all are alike good, or are not at all.
