Letters April 27, 1899 Issue

The Sentinel

with contributions from Joseph Robinson, Cornelia D. Batchelder

Dear Sentinel:— I want to express my thanks for the many helpful lessons taught through your pages. The one in particular that seemed to help me most was, "Believing or Understanding," by Laura L. Dressler, in the edition of March 16. We are not yet anchored in the great harbor of Love. When we weigh our anchor out of the muddy harbors of theology and medicine, and launch out into the deep waters of Christian Science, we are apt to drift out of our course many times, until we learn how to handle the old craft that has laid at anchor so long. But our wild experiences in drifting away, teach us by the things we suffer how to keep the right course; and so with the lesson of the "bird with the nest of thorns. The more the bird rebels, the harder the thorns prick." In Christian Science we learn by the things we suffer in opposing the Truth, "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." This has seemed to be my experience in Christian Science.

I find that once out of the right course I must regain the point where I left it. I realize I have lost much, and am willing at last to steady down and sail straight for the haven of Love pointed out by our dear Leader, although the wind seems dead against me.—Joseph Robinson.

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