Heartfelt appreciation for the Christian Science literature, which Mrs. Eddy provided for her followers, is expressed in the following experience:
A Christian Science practitioner, who for the past few years has experienced much lack in spite of her most earnest and devoted efforts, found it necessary to remove the practitioner's card which she had maintained for some years in The Christian Science Journal directory. She removed it because of the seeming necessity to take up work of another nature in order to earn even a very small amount upon which to live. This action was in accord with the By-Law, Article XXV, Section 9, of the Church Manual. But she never for an instant wavered in her trust and childlike faith that God would care for her, and she remained faithful to the teachings of Christian Science. Eventually the way opened for her to return to the active practice of Christian Science healing, and her first earnings from this work, beyond her most simple living expenses, were utilized as follows, to use her own words: "First of all I sent in my per capita tax [to The Mother Church] and ordered my [Christian Science] literature for six months." Her next step, she states, will be to apply for the reinsertion of her card as a practitioner in the Journal.
