Article May 23, 1903 Issue

Take up the Cross

GERTRUDE M. BRADLEY.

I HAVE been having a bad time lately. For some weeks everything seems to have been going all wrong, and only a few months ago I was so happy and getting on so well through Christian Science. I have been studying it just a year and my understanding of it and its blessings has all been proved from my own small experience, not from what I had heard or read, so it was weak and foolish of me to give way because people have tried to "talk me out of it." But I did. I began to drift and get slack about Bible study and reading Science and Health, to be careless over my thoughts, and I said to myself,"Perhaps I am wrong after all, and this fancied good is only imagination."

From that moment all my old enemies came crowding back. Worries, poverty, lack of ideas for my work, bad health, fear, bad thoughts, unkind speeches, all, till I was in despair and almost overwhelmed. Thanks to what little I knew of Christian Science I realized all through, though vaguely, that it was all my own fault, and at last in desperation I made up my mind to fight the matter out. I was tempted to write to a friend and ask for treatment, but I felt somehow that this would be merely shirking the fight; for I knew she would tell me to watch and pray; she had already told me of two things that were keeping me back and I had got slack in fighting them. So to-night I made up my mind to seek and find. I sat down with my Bible and Science and Health and a number of copies of the Sentinel, and prayed for light.

I skimmed through several articles until I came to one in the issue for January 15, that I read. It was what I needed and I should like to thank the writer for the message in "The Riches of Faith's True Inference."

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