The cautious traveler, planning his excursion into an unfamiliar country, provides not only for his advance, but considers also his means of retreat.
When I took up Christian Science work, I also stowed into the secret closet of thought a little skeleton of precaution and fear, which, according to promise, I will now liberate. I harbored the secret thought that I would not give any testimony in regard to myself or my work in Christian Science for at least a year, or until the time when my experience as a pioneer worker in the field would justify it. I purposed to commit myself as little as possible, for what if I should be disappointed, if the results which were at first so clear should after all fail, what if my first impressions were not reliable, and had misled me? My resolve was that I would candidly confess my mistake and ask my friends to restore me to my former fellowship.
The year has passed, and I will expel, and forever expose to shame, that demon in the closet, which, being renovated, may become a clean sanctuary for diviner thoughts, free from doubt.
