The life of Christian Science practitioners and teachers should be so filled with earnest endeavor in their particular field of labor that they have time to look neither to the right nor to the left, but only to press forward towards the mark of the high calling to which they are called. When I have read the helpful articles in our publications, and have been refreshed and strengthened thereby, I have often said to myself, Why not send forth your gratitude by acknowledgment of the same? but error would say, Be silent, and let some more learned person speak. Now I cannot keep silent any longer, and error has no power over me, for God is all power,— omnipotent, omnipresent power,— and I, as a child, reflect Him. I have been consciously fed, nourished, and strengthened by this omnipotent Love for nearly seven years. When there was none near to help, I found in God, Good, a very present help in every time of need. I have been in dark places, in caves of the earth, but God's omnipotent hand has led me, and when I seemed most to need help He was ever near. I am grateful to Mrs. Eddy, the dear Mother in Israel.
I came to Christian Science, not for the healing (although I partook of that afterwards) but for the help it brought me from the Bible. It was, indeed, a new book. Old things had passed away and all had become new. My first thought was to tell it to all my friends, and my first joy was the assurance that none should be lost. When I saw that, I thought this is, indeed, none other than the gate of heaven. God, Good, was a new God to me, He was a God of love. I had been taught to fear Him more than to love Him.
Now we, as Christian Scientists, should put on the whole armor, give up so-called material pleasures, devote ourselves unreservedly to the great work which is before us, and not feel satisfied until all shall know Christ from the least unto the greatest, for are we not all workers in the vineyard of our Master, striving to destroy anger, hate, malice, jealousy, self-righteousness, evil-thinking, evil speaking, ever on the watch to destroy the false claims of mortal mind.— Charleston, S. C.
