Ours was a sickly family, and I have been able to meet many claims for them, and for others at a distance.
I have not forgotten my experience with my first Journal, and I especially want to give it. It had meant demonstration for me to get the Journal, and I thought when the first copy came I never will part with a single one, and yet I never read my first Journal through. The next day after I received it a lady came to me having consumption. I talked with her a short time, and she told me her husband had sent her home to die. I said, "No; he sent you home to learn how to live." As I was very busy I gave her Science and Health, and told her to read it, it would tell her more than I could. She read quite a while and I talked with her again, explaining more of Truth to her. When she went home I gave her my new Journal to read, also some lectures. When I heard of her again she was well, her husband had joined her and they were keeping house, and since this experience I have no desire to with-hold my Journal and Sentinel from any who wish to read, for I know they always carry a message to hearts that are hungering.
I have waited thinking that there were others who could give better expression to their thought than I have done, but that will not prevent my giving just and loving acknowledgment of what Truth has done for me. I want to thank our dear Mother, Mrs. Eddy, for the message of Truth and love given us.
