Letters November 27, 1909 Issue

LETTERS TO OUR LEADER

with contributions from Anne Dodge, E. F. Hatfield, Virgil O. Strickler, Ella G. Young, Eva Stephens Week, Charles G. Bliss, Etta D. Smith, Charles Lacey Plumb, Florence D. Fiske, William Gellatly, Annie L. See, Bauman L. Belden, Bertha D. Woodling, John E. Cooper, Mary A. Armstrong, Carl H. Pierce, Myra Fay Grant, Nellie Mowry Breckenridge, Bess Louise Black, H. W. Breckenridge, Stella Lowe Colburn

New York, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1909.

Dearly Loved Teacher: — I have such good news for you! I want to tell you that the claims and beliefs which have seemingly held me ever since I withdrew from First Church here, have yielded during the past two weeks, and I am freer than I have been in years! Science and Health is also clearer, and it seems as if something that had been holding me is broken. I am conquering "erring, mortal, material sense" (Science and Health, p. 253), and am so grateful to you for liberating me, and turning me away from personality to Principle! In so doing you have saved me from the pitfalls of material sense and idolatry, revealed the allness of God, Spirit, and the oneness of your teaching with that of Christ Jesus. A great light has broken in upon me, and a stumbling-block to the progress of our beloved Cause is removed; namely, deification of personality rather than Principle, and reliance on aught but Spirit, God.

I see Science as I never saw it before, and know that our beloved Cause will receive fresh impetus from your fearless uplift of the banner of true Christian Science. That your teaching was always Christian, compassionate, and kind, I have always maintained when confronted with evidences of false teaching. With true gratitude to you for exalting Principle and showing me God's salvation,

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