Letters March 25, 1905 Issue

A Letter to Mrs. Eddy

Susan A. Everett

Chicago, Ill., February 9, 1905.

Beloved Leader:—It may not be amiss for me to tell you a little of that which has come into my life through your unique and inspired work. I was an allopathic physician, of Quaker lineage and education, prior to reading Science and Health ten years ago. I had heard of Christian Science, but could get to definite idea as to how diseases were healed by it, and my time for reading outside of my profession was limited.

In May, 1894, I bought a copy of Science and Health, thinking I could crowd in the reading of it at odd moments, but no such opportunity occurred until the following December, when at Christmas I had a week's vacation. The book had been forgotten for months, until I stumbled upon it just as my vacation arrived. My secretary had informed me that I could not trespass beyond my week of leisure, as she had made "dates" for work to begin immediately after the week expired. I concluded that at any rate I would look over the book, and began early in the morning, My interest was first aroused by the felicitous sentence, "To those leaning upon the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings" (Pref. p. vii.). which sentence reverberated through the halls of my memory for years after. I could scarcely stop to eat or sleep, for the interest deepened as the hours went by; until I reached the "Science of Being," which seemed to me a climax. I saw afterward, I had written along the margins of the leaves, "It is organ-toned." I seemed to be listening to a mighty organ, as I was being swept along into a new world! The majestic thoughts were laden with some afflatus that hitherto had been, to me, unknown.

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