Article October 3, 1903 Issue

A Visit to the White Mountain Church

VIRGINIA A. HUBBELL

On a fair Sunday morning we drove over beautiful mountain roads to the little White Mountain church nestled in the valley. It is a pretty structure of birch logs and boulders, surrounded by green fields with rugged mountains for a background from any point of view. It was the first service of the season, and the usual number of mountain visitors had not yet arrived; but there were about twenty present. The service was simple, a characteristic which marks all Christian Science services, but this one seemed unusually sweet, in the quiet of the mountains, and there seemed to be less of mortal thought to interfere with the peace which prevailed.

This little church is one of our missionaries in which all Christian Scientists are interested. It certainly means much to the Cause for those people who flee from heated cities in the summer to be able, Sunday after Sunday, to attend our service in so attractive a spot. If the church had a visitor's book, it would contain the names of many from distant cities and countries.

While in the mountains, a lady who is not a Scientist said, "I have watched the Christian Science people a long time, and when severely criticised they have manifested much love and gentleness. They bear no malice to any one, and when judged or condemned say nothing, but keep on living their same beautiful lives. I am going to study Science for myself now." How much missionary work Christian Scientists can do if they all thus live up to their knowledge of Christian Science! How much more that will accomplish than years of preaching and talking. The quiet and faithful living of the truth as taught in Science and Health is the deed which speaks louder than words. Truly "the best sermon ever preached is Truth practised, and the demonstration thereof, —the destruction of sin, sickness, and death" (Science and Health, p. 201).

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