Bath, Me., Feb. 11, 1889.
Editor Christian Science Journal:—I joyfully comply with your request to write about the Sunday school and the work we are doing. Two years ago last month I became a member of the Church of Christ (Scientist), Boston, and the following September I studied Christian Science. Maine being my native State, and feeling a call to go into the world and preach the gospel, I came to Bath, Me., and was the first Christian Scientist who had ever been in Bath. I opened a Christian Science Sunday school the first Sunday I was here, November 6, 1887, beginning with my own family. It now ranges in attendance from ten to twenty children. I lend the Journals to one and another to take home, and when, as has often happened, some one of my little scholars tells me how he has healed some member of his family of a discord, I feel like saying, Thank God for the revelation to us of Christian Science! Then I go to two or three different places through the week, where the spiritually hungry meet together, and I feed them to the best of my ability, and truly it is a feast for us all, for we know that God is with us. How I love to tell them of beloved Christian Science! How I wish space allowed me to tell you of the cures Truth has performed here, and of the wonderful work it is doing among the people, bringing them to a better understanding of Life, Truth, and Love. I have sold a number of Science and Health here and in adjoining places. I can't help talking Christian Science; it is my lifework now and for all time, and I have but one wish unfulfilled, and that is to become a student of the discoverer of Christian Science; but I wait God's time for all things. May my words help some one to go and do likewise, and so get the blessing! There is plenty to do. The fields are white, all ready for the harvest. I grudge the time I have to give to sleep. I am so much in love with the work, there is nothing in the world that could induce me to turn back from it.
A Christian Science Sunday Service was commenced at Binghamton in Oct., 1887. A Sunday school was held, and several talks on Christian Science were given. Last October a Sunday school was regularly organized. The school was taught as one class, by the three formal course graduates in this city, alternately. Last Sunday, March 3, we met for the first time in the Royal Arcanum Hall on Court St. The school is now divided into three classes. A record of attendance has not hitherto been kept, but will be from this time.
