Article October 30, 1902 Issue

Finding the Light

G. H. Lutz

WE are privileged to use the following self-explanatory communication from a Baptist minister to Christian Science friends:—

Dear Friends:—I want to tell you the good news. After many years of blind unbelief and persecution of Christian Science I have at last found the Light. How strange the past does look now! I can hardly find words to tell you my new joy, and I feel as if I ought to keep quiet and listen to God. One week ago last night, in First Church in Chicago, I publicly announced that I had taken my first step in Christian Science, and if your patience will endure it, I will try to be brief in telling you a little about myself.

I paid no great attention to Christian Science until after marriage, and only when my wife was no more by my side in the religious work I loved so dearly, was my attention strongly called to it. I investigated skeptically, and having convinced myself that it was the workings of evil, I began to hate and condemn everything that belonged to Christian Science. You may have a faint idea of the persecutions my dear wife had to undergo while living with one who hated the way that was life to her. Time would fail me to tell you of the many ways I annoyed her. When I could not read anything against Christian Science, I would attend lectures against it by people who did not know any more about it than I, and sometimes I would get so incensed against the Truth that I would preach against it. In this and many other ways I kept up the fight. During all this time I was keeping up this blind fight against Truth, I verily thought I was doing God a service and lived as it were a Pharisee of the Pharisees and persecuted this way even unto Damascus. I was blinded by mortal sense, but when I asked at the street called Straight for sight the scales fell from my eyes and I beheld the Son of God with healing in his wings, and now because I have (seemingly) done much against the Truth, I shall never be satisfied til I have sufficient understanding of this glorious way to be allowed to go forth and tell the good news of the glad tidings to all the world. I will close with a testimony witnessing that God is true. A few days before I made up my mind to acknowledge Christian Science I was impelled to purchase a Science and Health and read it honestly. I did so, and took it with me on a journey. Before sleeping that night I read of its pages fifty or more, and it was like peeping into a new world. I made up my mind that all was right. On the train, on Sunday morning, a gentleman shared my seat, and as we talked he unburdened his heart to me. Our destination was the same,—Jacksonville, Ill,—I, on business and he to pay a periodical visit to his wife in the State Hospital for the Insane. She had been there since her child of four months was born, and she was wrecked in body and mind. I told him my story, of all my past, and what I had found. He begged me to talk that way to his wife. I consented gladly, and they came to the morning service, at the close of which we withdrew to a quiet spot in the park. It was after three o' clock when I left them, the woman's headache gone and she sitting clothed in her right mind. I shall never forget that man's happiness when he bought my return ticket, and took his wife home to bring sunshine back to his life. I attended to business, hurried back to Chicago to hear a lecture on Christian Science in the Auditorium, and enjoyed it greatly. The following night I witnessed to the public that I had taken my first step in Christian Science. My brother brought his wife here to be treated by a specialist, and I told them my story and took them to church. They did not see the specialist. My brother, a fellow-laborer in the ministry, said that, knowing me as he did, there must be something in Christian Science. I advised him to see you and investigate. He took your address, and I know the rest. I wish to thank you both and all the faithful friends for their good examples which have helped me greatly. My own dear wife has been my guiding angel to bring me to the Truth. Imagine, if you can, the joy of my beloved when she knew that she had not labored in vain! the leaven did work. I thank you all. You are at liberty to make such use of this epistle as seems best for Truth. Yours in Love.
G. H. Lutz.

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