For over a year I have thought at times of writing for the Cause of Truth. but have been prevented by such considerations as these: Your most important demonstrations have not been made. especially those conspicuous in the eyes of your friends and relatives who are not Christian Scientists. For the same length of time my lips were also sealed at the Wednesday night meetings after I had given several testimonies on previous occasions. It then occurred to me that possibly one of the chief causes of my retarded growth, was my prolonged silence.
My demonstrations seemed trifling, but we are reminded that Michael Angelo once said trifles make perfection, and perfection is trifle. So when I start to enumerate all the trifles that I have experienced in Christian Science. I find a long list. Physically, Christian Science has overcome acute neuralgia, dysentery, and many other common ills. A severe burn on two fingers was met through my own understanding, and all pain entirely gone in fifteen minutes. Many small accidents and injuries have also been overcome from time to time. Again Christian Science gave me a more satisfying religion. I state this, too, in view of the fact that I am not one of those who could find nothing at all in the old church. I had been called an idealist, which I was, in thought if not in practice. I then dreamed of a more ideal condition among men, but I despaired of its realization. Christian Science goes beyond all those former fancies, and its beauty becomes apparent in the fact that it is no idle dream, for I see others all about me demonstrating its lofty idealism, applying it in their every-day life.
In closing, I desire to express gratitude for every one who has helped me, for class instruction, for the testimonies, and for counsel from friends, especially the one who first treated me in Christian Science and worked so patiently to enlighten me. I am grateful for our literature, and above all to God, and to the Discoverer of Christian Science.— Brooklyn, N. Y.
