SOME years ago, when I began attending the Christian Science church. I carried to the services a heavy heart full of fear and sorrow. I was in great tribulation, and was seeking through Christian Science a way of release from the burden of care and evil which oppressed me. I knew enough of the successful results of Christian Science work to feel confident of the outcome and looked for certain freedom and happiness in the future, but I considered that the present trouble would necessarily beget unhappiness and fear so long as it should last.
At these church services I was much helped by the bright faces and confident, happy manner of the many other students I met there, and at first, supposing that this joy was the result of work finished and victory won, I accepted it as proof that my own troubles would disappear in this light of Truth and that then I, too. would be happy.
But as the weeks went by and I made friends of these students and learned little by little of their lives, I found that by far the greater number of them were carrying burdens quite as heavy as mine,—some of them much heavier,— and that they.' like myself, were still seeking the freedom promised to those who know the truth.
