Dear Journal:—We are glad when one month is closing, for with the new one comes our much-loved Journal. We appreciate so much each article therein; and how eagerly we scan the "Contents," to see if a message has come to us from "Mother." When such a message is found, it furnishes sufficient food for that day,— otherwise "Notes from the Field," claim our attention. How these do speak, first to one, then another! Massachusetts and Washington clasp hands; Bermuda and Michigan greet each other; like the day of Pentecost, "We do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God" (Acts 2: 11).
I have for a long time wanted to tell of our first experience in Christian Science, and a little of the work here; and I thank "R. L. W., Guthrie, Okla," in the March Journal, for helping me to be ashamed, not of myself, but of the error which held me from writing, for if I could not write like Paul, yet I could say how grateful I was for the "daily bread" that is supplied in such abundance. Then too, did not Jesus, after blessing the bread and fish, give to the disciples for them to distribute among the people? All have so much to be grateful for, that it seems more, ''Where shall I begin to count my blessings?" than, "What have I to say?" and by being thankful we are assured that greater blessings yet will be poured out.
In a city of western Ontario, about seven years ago, a lady, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, told my mother how wonderfully she had been healed, in a few treatments, of a claim which presented itself after the birth of her babe, and also of the cure of the babe of some ailment from which the medical men said it could not recover. The earnestness of the lady, together with the word "Christian," seemed to assure mother that there could be nothing wrong or of the mesmeric or hypnotic methods about this, and very soon she found the Scientist, who is a student of one of the Mother's loyal students. The best physicians of that city had told mother that they could not do anything for her unless she gave up her business and took a long holiday. This she could not do: and right here is a marked difference between the treatments by materia medica and Christian Science, for the latter said that the promise, "My grace is sufficient for you," was really meant, and that it was to be proven in all cases, physical as well as spiritual, and that one need not be idle in order to be healed.
