I am constantly receiving so much benefit from the Journal and Sentinel, that I should like to express a little of the gratitude I feel, by relating one little experience.
One morning a young lady came hastily into the office where I am employed, and asked me to give her some help immediately to overcome a sense of extreme fear. She is employed in setting type on a newspaper and error seemed to be seeking an excuse to break the contract which she had with the paper in order to make a place for another. On this morning she was to be given a piece of work as a test, and an account was to be kept of the time consumed in completing the task. The same piece of work was then to be given to another person to see if he could not do it more rapidly. The question of the Printer's Union was also part of the problem.
I was extremely busy and felt that I could not take a moment from my own work, and wished that she had gone to some one else who had time to help her. Then I realized that she had come to Truth for help, the only source of help, and in Truth there was no lack of time.
During a moment's lull in my work, I took a Sentinel out of my desk, and my eye fell on the title of an article in the issue of July 4, "The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man," and, down in the body of the article, a quotation from the Bible: "It is the Spirit that quickeneth." I just read these two sentences, but they contained the thought needed in this problem,—universal Love and the "quickening" of Spirit. The latter I applied literally, and a little spiritual light on these two sentences, brought a great sense of freedom, which I knew was reflected to the other one wanting help, and so it afterwards proved.
My own work progressed remarkably well, and I have been benefited nearly every day since in accomplishing my work as stenographer, etc., by remembering that "It is the Spirit that quickeneth."— Decatur, Ill.
