Article February 8, 1900 Issue

The Blessings of Christian Science

The Saturday Review

THE following story was told in a Christian Science meeting in a northern city. The woman was a stranger in the congregation, and she appeared to be from the best middle class. She said,—

"Two months ago I was desperately in need of everything—reverses had followed each other thick and fast. My best dress was faded and worn, the children were bare-footed, and we could not hope to get shoes for them. My husband was a drinking man, and nobody would trust him with work. I stayed at home until it looked as if starvation was threatening my little ones; despair had its icy fingers on me when I put on my hat and started out in the street, with a determination to ask for help. I went aimlessly about the streets until I saw this church; then it occurred to me to go in, and I thought some good Christian would help me. A sweet woman spoke to me; I told her my story of distress, and she did not offer me money or material aid in any way; she talked to me and gave me some literature, and told me if I would read and understand it would lift me above all distress and worry. She said, 'God is Love; you are His child, and you cannot want when you understand that you are a child of a King.' I went out empty handed from the church, but all the depression and anxious fear that was heaped upon my soul was gone. I read and re-read the literature she gave me, and then a Christian Scientist visited my home and told me of God as a very present help in the time of trouble, and I believed every word of it, and this lifted me above the confusion that was around me. All fear was gone, and little by little things began to harmonize. Now, two months after the first literature in Christian Science was given me, I have the brightest and sweetest home. My husband has quit drinking, he is sober and industrious, and he has all the work that he can do, and we both rejoice in our home which is made bright and attractive by God—Good.

"Not one cent was ever given us, but it was simply God's word believed and made manifest which has supplied us.

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