I feel I have been far too long in writing to the Journal to tell of my thankfulness for Christian Science, the help it has been, and the change it has made in my whole life. Perhaps I waited partly because no words of mine will ever express my real thankfulness. Though I am very thankful for being so strong and well now, I am more especially grateful for the new understanding of God which Christian Science has taught me. From having such a small, finite idea of Him, I have been led to know more and more, day by day, that He is infinite protection,—that He is "universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and sendeth no evil and no sin upon man" (Science and Health, p. 140).
I spent last winter at St. Helena, a long way from all other Christian Scientists, and have never felt so much before that God is with us always, and that often before we call He will answer, and is, indeed, a very present help in every trouble if we only do trust Him, if we do "hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true" (Science and Health, p. 261), and silence all false claims of evil.
On our homeward voyage we were in a terrible storm in the Bay of Biscay which lasted nearly three days, and the words from Isaiah, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee;" and "The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea," used to help me continually, and almost every particle of fear went away, and I was able to help other people a little, and not break down myself, as I had always done before, when it was even the least rough. We got through the storm without the slightest damage to the ship. Mrs. Eddy says that "They [angels] are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love," which guide us to the Principle of all Good (Science and Health, pp. 298, 299). Surely He does give His angels charge over us, and they will lift us up.
