My Dear Friend:— Your letter was gladly received a few days ago, and it was good of you to write me what you honestly thought, for surely we cannot see all at once, and it is a growth to come into the spiritual thought when for a life long we have been educated to believe in matter and its laws as the reality, and have never had our eyes opened to the fact that God's law understood, overcomes every false material law, for it overcomes evil with good! So you are free, even though the senses claim otherwise, for there is but one Mind, and His power and His Infinite Love are over, above and through you, and matter has no power to prevent you from manifesting your birthright, which is health, strength, and dominion over evil in all its forms.
Of Mrs. Eddy, I can only say that I think of her as truly inspired to give us this message of Light and blessing, and when I think of what it has been to me and done for me, and how it has led me to comprehend the Christ as I never dreamed I could until my study of Christian Science, my gratitude and love is unwavering. It is as if a friend should in my need give me a great treasure by which my whole life would be made better and stronger, and that I could prove by the daily use of that treasure that its power of good to me was unlimited, and its powers of good to others would follow my use of it! Could I be ungrateful, or could I afford to waste the precious moments in questioning her authority or fitness to give me the gift? Should I not rather take it trustingly, thankfully,—knowing that Good comes but from one source—God—and trusting to His Infinite Wisdom to know best to whom to entrust His message? And you are right, I think, that just in proportion as we understand His law, are we in turn ready to give the message to others.
If the people of intellect—the scribes and Pharisees—in the time of Jesus had not denied his ability to see any more of spiritual law than they, they might have taken the great Truth he was trying so faithfully and lovingly to give them, could have been his followers, and could have prevented the ages of darkness that followed their unbelief! But they could see nothing but common clay in the Saviour of mankind, and thought themselves quite as well able—or better able—to give the world a system of theology as He, and they crucified him! O how short-sighted we are! And how like little children we have to become. So obedient, not thinking more highly of ourselves than we should think, nor of our theories of Christianity, which we have not proven much by perhaps, but let us be simply learners, as the disciples of old, willing to leave all for the Christ-Truth, which in turn gives us all, and we find we have left nothing!
