Article September 26, 1903 Issue

Why I Strive to Follow the Teachings of Mrs. Eddy

IRA C. HUBBELL.

By education and practice I am an engineer; what might perhaps be called a "self-made" one, in that I have not had the advantages of certain training which has been the privilege of others; and much that has been learned has been acquired when others were asleep, although at the time, I was doing a full day's work. I wish I might earlier in life have had the help received during the past eight years from the study of Christian Science.

In my study of engineering, preference was given those writers whose teachings were most lucid and explicit, and in the effort to gain a practical application of the subject I associated with those who possessed the clearest understanding of the principles of engineering, and who could, therefore, best enable me to apply what I had learned.

Throughout my life I have respected the teachings of the Bible and have taken rather an active part in Church and Sunday-School work, improving each opportunity to hear the famous ministers of the gospel, and have had intimate association with some of them; have heard and read their sermons in order to understand the Bible, and thank them one and all for the great good received from them; but under their teaching I did not get what was needed, for it all seemed to point to a God who was afar off, and it was a big question whether I was ever going to get where He had His abiding place.

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