Article March 14, 1903 Issue

Incidents along the Way

HARRIET PRICE.

With a heart full of gratitude to Christian Science and to our dear Leader for the many blessings which have come to me and other members of my household, I wish to add my mite to the columns of the Sentinel.

For eleven years I have been the recipient of many blessings through wonderful experiences in Christian Science. When I first took up the study I did not even hope for physical healing, but felt that it would give me peace of mind. Because of mental and physical suffering, I had for a number of years been seeking the baptism which would enable one to enter the kingdom of heaven, but could not be satisfied with the baptismal forms of any of the churches. At the first Christian Science meeting which I attended, the entire time was filled with the topic of baptism and the kingdom of heaven. It was such a revelation to me that from that time to the present I have never had the least sense of doubt that Christian Science is the truth that Jesus taught and demonstrated, and as the baptism has gone on mentally the physical healing has been manifested. Ailments have disappeared which doctors had pronounced incurable. I wish to relate a little incident from which I drew a very helpful lesson.

One afternoon as I sat on the step at my home my attention was attracted by a large brown worm crawling on the gravel walk in front of me. A little black ant came towards it and at once the worm seemed to give some attention to it, as if trifling with it; in an instant the ant fastened itself upon the worm with a firm grasp; the worm did not seem to notice it but went crawling on its way. The ant evidently had a way of attracting other ants, for very soon there were dozens of them, which one by one fastened themselves on the worm until it was completely covered, and instead of being a brown worm it had the appearance of being a very large black one. As the ants got more and more control, the worm began to roll and flounder and turn in every direction, making great efforts to shake off the mass of intruders; but its efforts were all in vain, not one of them would loosen its hold. The worm's mistake was in allowing the first to take hold, and now it was too late—there were too many for its unwary indifference.

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