My Dear Mrs. Eddy:— I feel that I may thus familiarly address you, for though a stranger to you in the conventional sense, I may say that you seem near and dear to me for what you have taught me. And because this is so I want to tell you of my little experience in defending the faith, and establishing myself, in some measure at least, in that understanding whereby we come into the Truth which makes us free, indeed.
I am but a novitiate in Science. It does not come to me "with power and great glory," but rather in that gentle radiance and warmth which dispels
"* * * the mists and vapors,
Amid these earthly damps,"
