Editor Journal: In February, 1887, my wife and I took a course of lectures on Christian Science of Mrs. L. Previous to that I had read through Science and Health, and thought I understood considerable of it, but then found I had seen only the faintest glimmer of Truth.
My wife had been from childhood a member of the Methodist Church. Though I knew little of the doctrines of the church, I held them sacred and thought I ought not to look too deeply into them. In this way I had gone along with my wife in the conventional forms of religion. We had never, however, been satisfied with our religious experiences, because we could not feel as others seemed to feel, and we thought we ought to be like them. Others seemed to be on the mountain-top; we could not be with them, and did not yet understand that in the tumult of the senses the still small voice of Truth cannot be heard.
According to the old thought, my wife was very, very nervous. This was a source of much annoyance to me, and also brought great sorrow and mental suffering to her. She is happy now. The old beliefs have passed away, and the horrible thought of hell, and all sorts of error, have fled from her, and are replaced by thoughts of Life, Love, and Truth. As she came into Christian Science her struggle was with her own personality, more than against the new teaching.
