Article April 18, 1903 Issue

A Letter to our Leader

Frances Hastings Jewett

Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

My Dear Mother:— I have been thinking that perhaps it might give you pleasure to hear from one who loves your words, how very beautiful those that you have given us for our Communion Hymn sounded in the solo in church last Sunday morning! To me, at least, they carried a meaning higher and deeper than ever before, and, indeed, with the opening of the song came an experience most beautiful. It seemed to me as if two mighty wings suddenly unfolded and spread over and above the congregation. So strong was my sense of this, that involuntarily I lifted up my eyes, as if to see them, and as I did so, I felt shaken, literally, as if by unseen power, and then so lifted up and strengthened, so triumphant, as the words and music came pouring forth and rising upward, and became to my consciousness a veritable psalm of triumph and thanksgiving, and for that moment I could realize the words also that you have given us in Science and Health; "for the accuser is not there, and Love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain" (Science and Health, p. 568).

Mr. Jewett, who has been away traveling, had just that morning reached home in time for service, and turning to him, after the experience just related. I saw him touched as never before by the singing of that hymn, for his face was quivering and his eyes filled with tears, so that I knew I was not alone in the realization of the greater meaning that your words were conveying to your church. Hoping, dear Mother, that my telling of this may give you some comfort and joy.

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