An increasing sense of gratitude for the manifold blessings we are constantly receiving from the hand of Love, through our dear Mother, and the feast of good things our treasured Journal brings to us each month, causes me to try to express my gratitude and to "Distribute what God has given me of experience, hope, faith, and understanding."
It may comfort the heart of the writer of "A Voice from the Desert" in the August (1898) number of the Journal, to learn of one of the instances where her "experience" has helped another. The article came to me just when I most needed it. I was becoming discouraged, and material duties seemed to be shutting off every avenue of progress in demonstrating Science; but the difficulties surmounted in that case helped me to overcome fear, and taught me this lesson:—
The little trials which we meet each day
May lie as stumbling blocks across our way,
Or we may make them stepping-stones to be
Of grace, O Christ, to thee.
