Letters to our Leader

with contributions from J. O. Webster, Laura C. Nourse, Edith C. Fisher

Wyandotte, Mich., April 18, 1905. Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy,

Pleasant view, Concord, N. H.

Dear Mrs. Eddy: —I am sending you two articles that appeared in our paper, the Wyandotte Daily Record, in reply to attacks made by Rev. McDowell, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, this city. I thank God that I am able in a small way to help spread this glorious gospel. I thank God, too, for the blessings that have come to my home through Christian Science. My wife was healed of so-called incurable organic disease of years' standing, after the most eminent physicians of Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio had failed. I have been morally and spiritually healed. We cannot praise God too much for Science and Health and for the spiritual interpretation of God's Word as given us by the author. God bless you, dear Mrs. Eddy, for this new-old truth.

I hope ever to be found ready and willing to help lessen evil, from whatever source it may come.

With loving and grateful heart, I am,

Yours very truly,

J. O. Webster.

The following excerpts are taken from the articles referred to above.—ED.

Christian Science is nothing less than the exemplification of the practical teachings, words, and works of Jesus of Nazareth.

Natural scientists during the past ten years have come to the conclusion that all so-called matter was once and will again be resolved into infinite and unseen forces. Sir William Crookes and Lord Kelvin, among the world's most noted natural scientists, only recently declared that "atoms are resolved into forces," and that "matter is only a mental concept."

These conclusions are not far fetched when compared to the teachings of Christian Science which affirm that God and His infinite creations, including man, are the only realities of existence.

The Christian Scientists know that their help, their healing of sickness and disease is from God, and, as earnest and honest seekers after truth, they are striving to live the life of the Master, and all the powers of earth, the flesh, and the devil cannot take from them what they know to be the power of God as demonstrated through the Saviour of men.

Critics are learning fast that it does not do any good to ignorantly assail this great and growing religious body, for it only sets fair-minded people to investigate it. An earnest and honest investigation, in a large majority of cases, increases the number of followers, which is multiplying at a most marvelous rate throughout the world.

Eau Claire, Wis., June 11, 1905.

Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy,

Pleasant View Concord, N. H.

Beloved Teacher, Leader, Guide: —It has seemed to me well that we, the beneficiaries of your life-work for humanity, should help to brighten the ascending path your feet are treading before us, up to the heights of divine Science. On Christmas Day, after some preliminary work by the Church Board, we took up a collection for The Mother Church Building Fund, amounting in all to sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents. Five dollars of this sum was a freewill offering from the children of our Sunday School. To a few, who had not yet learned to look to the one source of all-supply, nothing doubting, this step seemed unwise and uncalled for. To those who saw clearly, it was a manifest duty to care first for the Vine, if we expected the branches to prosper. In April following we canceled the mortgage on our own church building, and paid up every church debt; and we date our own financial demonstration from our little offering to The Mother Church on Christmas Day. Following this, it was decided, by a unanimous vote of the Church, to defer church repairs, and therefore church dedication, and send a certain sum, each month, to The Mother Church until the new auditorium should be completed. To-day, the children of our Sunday School voted to add their mite each month, and it would do your heart good to see and feel the enthusiasm of these little workers. Truly, "of such is the Kingdom of God." With a joy which no words may describe, and a love purified and chastened, in the exact proportion that sense gives place to Soul, I remain, Your grateful and loving student,

Laura C. Nourse.

Cleveland, O., April 13, 1905.

Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy,

Beloved Leader: — I want to tell you that I am one of the many beneficiaries of your great work for humanity, having been entirely healed of consumption through Christian Science. I was at one time so emaciated that at night I was compelled to rest my hips on pillows. I have since my healing gained sixty pounds in weight.

Words fail to express my gratitude for this great truth which heals physically, morally, and spiritually.

Lovingly yours,

Mrs. Edith C. Fisher.

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