Randsburg, Cal., Aug. 19, 1908.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
Box G, Brookline, Mass.

Dear Madam:—The thought has come to me that I must write to you, and tell you, if I can do so, what a revelation "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" has been to me. I believe that you will understand why I feel constrained to write when I make known to you my personal experience, for this understanding of God which you have revealed to the world means more to me, perhaps, than it would to one who had never known the sweets of divine Love. In my early manhood I found what I believed to be the Christian's secret of a happy life. The knowledge I obtained at the time I surrendered self, and trusted wholly in the Christ love to do the work for me which I felt I could not do for myself, enabled me to overcome temptation and sin all through my life. At the time this sweet sense came to me, many of the errors of mortal mind were destroyed within me, such as envy, strife, hatred, etc. As I believed that I was already in possession of the Christian's secret I could not hope to find a better way, and I doubt whether I would have become interested in Christian Science if I had not read the criticisms of Mark Twain and others, published in some of the leading periodicals of the day. These criticisms caused me to investigate your writings, and I soon found that the severe criticisms were not only unjust to you and your writings, but that you taught the truth as it was taught by Christ Jesus. When I grasped the thought, while reading Science and Health, that God's kingdom is wholly spiritual, such a revelation came to me that I saw I was only a babe as yet in God's household; that I had been feeding upon the milk of the word when I might have partaken of the strong meat, so to speak.

Since I have grasped the thought that all is Mind, and that Mind is Spirit, God, and that God is Love, Life, and Truth, that He is All-in-all, and that there is nothing real but Truth; that sin, sickness, and death are only the false concepts of the mortal mind, which (as Paul tells us) is enmity with God and is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be, I feel that I have lost sight of my age (sixty-one years) and that I have only begun to realize what life means and is to the real man created in the image and likeness of God. Oh, how my heart goes out to you in love and gratitude for revealing to this age the highway of holiness, for making the way to heaven (which is within us) so plain, and the rule for working out the problem of our salvation so simple that a little child can understand and know God as He is, and be able to grow up free from false beliefs about God, good.

I am not a member of the Christian Science Church, but hope to be in the near future if found worthy. My dear wife and I are the only two here who are particularly interested in the study of Christian Science, but we believe that others will become so in the near future. Randsburg is a mining town and I am one of the miners. I will add that since taking up the study of Christian Science my thinking and reasoning powers have developed far beyond what they were, that my memory is growing better, and that I can express what I know better than I ever could.

Yours in Christian love,
S. L. Kain.

London, England, July 28, 1908.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—I want so much to thank you for your book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and for all that your teaching means. It has been such a great help to me in trouble, making me see things in a wonderful new light. I am quite a beginner, having read your book for the first time at Christmas. Though I have at present only a small glimpse of what it really means, I have been so helped, and it is all so wonderful, that I feel I must write and thank you. I had read a portion of the Bible each day for twenty years, but it is a new book to me now; it is as if a veil had been lifted. My great desire is that I may grow in this new understanding and so be able to help others as I have been helped. Again thanking you,

Yours faithfully,
Grace L. M. Elliott.

Osage City, Kan., Aug. 24, 1908.

Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy, Boston, Mass.

Dearest Leader:—May I have a moment of your time to tell you that I am truly grateful for the great work you have done for the cause of humanity. Your teaching has rolled away many stones from my path, and I have the assurance that all will disappear as I have one God and that good. Your setting aside of the Communion season helped me to overcome a disappointment because I could not attend it, and gave me a needful rebuke that I did not commune more with divine Mind. It gave me a deeper sense of God as ever-present Love, thereby removing a sense of limitation, and taught me that all are welcome in The Mother Church always. I am grateful that I live in this age of our dear Pathfinder. If I can be of any use to you or the Cause, command me.

With sincere love,
Grace L. Underwood.

New York, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1908.

Dear Leader:—When working this morning on a seemingly stubborn problem these words from page 504 of your book, Science and Health, came to me: "The rays of infinite Truth, when gathered into the focus of ideas, bring light instantaneously." This opened up such a vista of light upon my mental horizon that I felt I must thank you for all you have done and are doing for all mankind. I pray to be found more trustworthy every day, and to do my part in this great and noble work of which you are the Leader.

With a heart full of love and gratitude to you, I am one of your earnest followers,

Charlotte B. Eldridge.

Chatfield, Minn., July 24, 1908.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader and Teacher:—I wonder if you have ever known that the inspiration for the little poem from which the hymns 121 and 122 in our Church Hymnal were taken, was gained from the study of the beautiful words in Science and Health, page 55, lines 15 to 25, which conclude our Lesson-Sermon for next Sunday? Many times, as I have studied the Lesson this week, my heart has gone out to you in boundless love and gratitude for your great gift to needy humanity, and I have thanked our dear Father-Mother God that at least a partial realization of your "weary hope" is vouchsafed to you. God help us all so to purify our lives from all sin that we shall speed you on to the fuller and grander consummation of this sweet and sacred prophecy. With dear love,

Gratefully yours,
Laura C. Nourse.

Sevenoaks, England, July 7, 1908.

Beloved Leader:—I wish I could express to you something of the joy and gratitude I felt in reading over your letter about the abolition of the Communion season in The Mother Church. Your teaching has so unfolded to me the sense of the unbroken continuity of Love's activity that I was longing for the time when special occasions should no longer seem to be there. Some of our little community live far away from a town, so after the services on Sunday the 5th we stayed to read the letters and By-laws together. I think you will be glad to know that though we have held services for only two and a half years, and that some of us are very young in Science, there was not one present who did not see clearly the advanced step, and many expressed the desire that our thought in the branch churches might be so uplifted that the step may soon become universal. I would like to thank you too for the new By-law about numbering the people. The work here is in a small country town, and, to sense, it is a great overcoming for young students to come forward openly and attend the Christian Science services. The result has been, that while our beloved text-book is in great demand and much quiet healing is going on, the attendance at the services has been small. The members were eagerly counted and disappointment and undue elation alternated; also a desire to interfere and enquire closely into causes of absence, thus trying to steal the freedom of individual action. We had seen that this was wrong and stopped it, but when we read the new By-law we saw much more clearly that adherence to divine Principle, to Love, alone can build us up.

I know that our experience will be the same as that in many small towns where similar conditions have to be overcome; and that they will feel the same uplifting which we feel. I humbly and gratefully thank you for the loving wisdom that has thus supplied our need. It has given us a joyous sense of fresh encouragement, guidance, protection, and we thank God for our Leader.

Yours lovingly and gratefully,
Jeanie C. E. Andrews.

Boston, Mass., Aug. 8, 1908.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—I wish most heartily to thank you for the latest amendment to the By-law regarding music in The Mother Church. In defining so clearly what music you consider appropriate, you make the task of the musicians easier, and I shall gladly strive to be increasingly obedient to both the letter and the spirit of the By-law. Especially do I thank you for the protecting love with which you surround all those who are trying to serve the cause of Christian Science.

Gratefully and lovingly yours,
Albert F. Conant.

Vineyard Haven, Mass., Aug. 20, 1908.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—My heart is so full of gratitude for Christian Science and for the privilege of reading the Bible in The Mother Church, that I must write just a word of love and loyalty to you, dear friend and beloved Leader. My daily prayer is that I may be worthy to do this work, and that I may be able to get myself sufficiently out of the way, that the reading of the Word of God may be healing. My love to you I cannot express, but perhaps you, with your great loving heart, will understand how I love you.

Faithfully,
Carol Hoyt Powers.

Grand Rapids, Mich., Aug. 29, 1908.

Dearly Beloved Leader:—After an entire night spent in the reading of Science and Health, the command comes clearly to thank you. As the first activities of a new day are beginning in the streets, I am reminded of the true definition of morning, "Light; symbol of Truth; revelation and progress" (Science and Health, p. 591). This "morning" is, indeed, the new era of Christian Science; and is it not imperative for all those "arrayed in white robes" to serve Truth "day and night in His temple"? (Revelation, 7:13, 15.) Dear Leader, I thank you for the redemption that your heaven-born messages have brought to me during the past years; but most of all I thank you for this latest and greatest gift,—the healing light that has been with me, during the hours of the night just past, through your inspired explanation of man's relation to God in Science and Health. I owe a very great debt of love to humanity for the many, many times I have been healed through reading Science and Health, and I realize more than ever before that the only way to begin payments on this obligation is by being "faithful over a few things."

Lovingly and gratefully,
Agnes F. Chalmers.