Article January 5, 1899 Issue

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BY JOSEPH S. EASTAMAN.

It is with a feeling of deep gratitude that I accept the permission to write an occasional contribution to our Weekly.

This being my first letter, I feel it my duty to first give God thanks, and also our beloved Mother, Mrs. Eddy, for this added facility given to the Christian Scientists, and to all the people everywhere, to progress and speed our way out of "Sense into Soul" while we are learning the proper relations between God and man, by which mortal bondage can be destroyed, and man can manifest the freedom of the children of God.

In my heart I welcomed you ten weeks ago, for I feel sure you are destined to do much good to the cause of Christian Science as well as to Christian Scientists everywhere, and though you are only a few weeks old, already the Field is anxiously looking for the little messenger that brings to all words of peace and guidance from our dear Mother and guide. You have come to the help of Christian Scientists under very different circumstances from your elder brother, the Christian Science Journal. How well do I remember the days when the very helpful Christian Science Journal was very nearly the same size and form as you are. But oh, what hard struggles it had to go through to hold its own and gain circulation! There were then very few in the ranks of Christian Science who had inclination, or even ability, to help it. Its founder, editor, publisher, and owner, the Leader and Discoverer of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, had to do about all the writing for it. What little help she had from students in the way of furnishing matter for the paper she had in many cases to correct, and even prevent some articles being printed, because they were more a hindrance than a help to the advancement of the Journal. Of course there were in those days very few in the ranks of Christian Science, and the few who had the ability to write were not sure of their ability to write what such a journal needed to make the proper impression on the minds of the people. It was not because Christian Science was not old enough and good enough to do all the good that God intended it should, for, aside from the great demonstrations by its founder, Mrs. Eddy, there were then already many hundreds instructed, and not a few in the practice of Christian Science as healers, and the demonstrations of healing and reforming were good. But the Christian Scientists somehow could not talk Christian Science as they can now, mainly, I suppose, because there were not many sufficiently interested in Christian Science to listen to it, and also because in many cases it was for the good of the Cause, and for the Christian Scientists, too, not to talk it, but to think, to act, and to live it. In those days we had to use much care and judgement in talking and in practising Christian Science.

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