Letters December 17, 1904 Issue

Letters to our Leader

with contributions from Ezra M. Buswell, Eldora O. Gragg, C. Morse Wescott, W. E. Painter

Beatrice, Neb., November 24, 1904.

Our Dear Leader:— Thought has been busy, this beautiful Thanksgiving morning, taking a retrospective glance over the past twenty years and more, thinking of the many blessings that have been ours, all of which we owe to our dear Father. In this our thought turns to you as the one on earth to whom we owe most gratitude and love, you who have patiently sacrificed so much that your followers may partake of the joys of Soul. Few can know of the great work you are daily doing for us better than can we, who spent four years so near your home, and saw your patient toil, your humility and love. Through such a consecrated life God speaks and the sick are healed. Your beautiful prayer, "Shepherd, show me how to go," is with us daily, and to our heartfelt desire there comes the answer, "This is the way, walk ye in it."

More than twenty years ago I was given up by eminent physicians. Hope had well-nigh faded out, and when the last straw of material relief had floated from my reach Christian Science was mentioned to me, and Science and Health was placed in my hands with the comforting assurance that I could heal myself by the study of it. I had not read many pages before I saw that it gave the correct view of the Bible, and at this point I was ready to part with materia medica forever. I studied this dear little book and the Bible faithfully. At the end of one year I realized that I was healed, and not a symptom of those troubles have ever returned. How just and right, therefore, that we should gratefully remember you this glad day, when the people of our nation are giving thanks? You already know we love you, but it may bring added comfort to your dear heart to know that my wife and I are giving our whole effort to this Cause that means so much to us. We thank God and are grateful to you that we can help the sinful out of their bondage and the sick out of their suffering, by doing as you have taught us. That we may faithfully imitate the example of Christ Jesus, as do you, is our daily desire.

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