Article January 18, 1900 Issue

Expression of Gratitude

BY EMILY B. F. SHANKLIN

It is hard to express one's gratitude in words, for the great light of Christian Science, or to tell how marvelously its rays lead out of darkness into light, but I feel that I should long ago have attempted to give something of an experience, that might help some one still struggling in the bonds of invalidism.

From childhood I was a member of the Episcopal Church, my father having been a clergyman of that denomination. While I had every faith in my church, yet from earliest years there was an unfulfilled longing to know and understand more of a God who seemed afar off. When my father passed away, I found myself unprepared to face the world and earn a living through teaching, but this seemed the only course open. From time to time ill-health forced me to give up my work, but in spite of this, a desire to become a trained nurse caused me to send in an application to Bellevue Training School, N. Y. It was accepted, and for one year, I succeeded in going on with the course, though each day brought its battle with physical pain and weariness, finally a complete collapse forced me to return to friends in Toronto, worn out in body and mind.

The two years that followed were trying ones, I was under the care of the best physicians in the city, but received no benefit. During that time I tried to learn resignation, to what I then thought, was God's will, and as the months of pain passed by endeavored to become reconciled to a life of invalidism.

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