Article April 22, 1905 Issue

Rest in Love

LOUISE DELISLE RADZINSKI.

An article in a recent issue of The Christian Science Journal, telling of a man's vacation experiences, carried me back some years to a time when my early steps in Science were tentative and very timid. The college of whose faculty I was a member, had closed for the summer; the entrance examinations for the fall semester were over, and I turned homeward with the question in my heart, "Father, what next?"

It had been my custom to prepare, during the long vacation, special work for elective classes, examine new books, and then make a few visits and short trips for rest before taking up the fall duties.

I had not found that visits or pleasure trips were particularly restful or recuperative, but I had taken them as a matter of course, under the belief that a teacher needs a rest and a change after her year's work in the class-room. Christian Science had, however, come into my life with such renovating and rejuvenating influences that the usual routine of visits and trips had become rather distasteful, and the question, "Father, what next?" rose continually. After the cottage had been put in summer trim, a quantity of sewing was brought out—ornamental needlework to be finished, and garments to be repaired; books to be read were set out, and a schedule of hours of garden work, needlework, and reading was prepared that promised profitable occupation and a certain amount of pleasure. But a mightier hand than mine took up these rough-hewn tablets upon which my summer was to be graven, and marked them with a very different tale. The factories in the valley below the hill on which my cottage nestled, were closed for the greater part of the day, the water supply being insufficient for full hours' work, and the operatives, docked of their wages, and lacking their usual quality of food, began to manifest their sense of privation in fevers, boils, and in still more serious ailments.

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