The question "A" asks in the July Journal, in regard to an opening in some other field for a Scientist, comes home to me so strongly, that I feel like giving my experience.
Ever since I have been interested in Christian Science, I have been so opposed by my many orthodox relatives, that the temptation to leave home has been one that has had to be met and handled a great many times. I am now firmly convinced that if it were right for me to go, Truth would open the way, and I have no right to force a way. Wherever I would go, the miserable self would still put forth its claims, and it seems to me that one place is as good as another since God is every where; and the cross that seems so heavy will have to be borne sometime, somewhere, Why not here, and now
A friend of mine (also a Scientist), living in a large boardinghouse, was, in belief, much annoyed by constant practising on the piano. It seemed to interfere with her demonstration. The time came for her to take a vacation; she left home, thinking how glad she would be not to hear the dreaded practising the next morning. Truly, there was no piano in her new abiding place, but the first sounds which greeted her ears the next morning were those of an old country organ, and the shrill notes of a cornet. So we find we cannot run away from our crosses, nor seek to change with some one else. The point is to see their nothingness, and that they have no power to turn us back. There is no time or place where God is not, and we are never tempted above that which we are able to overcome. Let us remember these things and press on. "If God be for us, who can be against us?"
