About twenty months ago, my attention was directed to Science and Health. Being at the time, and having been for years previous, a subject of many beliefs in sin and sickness; and having tried in vain to find help in either orthodoxy (which I had in abundance) or in medicine (which I had tested to the utmost) I eagerly perused its pages and pondered over its meaning. Little by little its meaning was unfolded, and the mists of carnal and material sense dispersed. Being totally isolated in my search after Truth and Health in body and mind, many doubts and obstacles surrounded my endeavors. My first personal interview with a Christian Scientist was in the month of January of this year. This resulted in the main in the confirmation of the correctness of the path pursued. My desire to attend the meeting of the Association in New York was almost frustrated by a violent attack of illness several days previous; and nothing but the thought of the loss to me resulting from my absence inspired me, sick as I was, to undertake the journey. Imperceptibly did the pains and aches disappear on my way to New York, and great was my joy when I found myself in the hallowed influence of the assembly in the Lenox Lyceum. My purpose to continue in the path entered upon, received a new impulse; and not without multiplied blessings. While conscious of the goal before me, and of my remoteness from it, I keep pressing on; and day by day new light is dawning upon me, and heavenly thoughts are flowing into mind. The presence of the eternal I Am is becoming a vitalizing reality, and I do see that I must restore that which I have not taken away. The false light of the senses is gradually disappearing, and the true Light of the Spirit in the ever-present Christ is approaching as the Jesus, the lover and deliverer of my soul. Humbly and gratefully shall I bow my knee in the name of Yahveh, in the knowledge of Jesus, the Son of God, the voice and word of the Father; until the last vestige, until the faintest remembrance and the feeblest intonation of self-love, of self-will and self-justification shall forever have ceased their clamor.
I know that the aspirations of all true Scientists are pouring into my thought; that I am encompassed by an innumerable company of heavenly messages; yea, that the infinite ocean of Light, Life, Truth and Harmony is open to me; that I am in it, and that my God, the Elohim, will abundantly supply all my wants. Let the faint-hearted take courage, and wait patiently on the Lord who is ever present. While He speaks let the senses keep silence before Him.—
