Letters May 1, 1909 Issue

LETTERS TO OUR LEADER

with contributions from Leonora Hearle, Lucy S. Seaman, George L. Van Allen, Martha K. Barding, Lena R. Dayton, Daisy B. Norred, Mary Viley Little, Charles N. Churchill, Elizabeth L. Leigh, Charles K. Skinner, Sophie C. Roberts

North Yakima, Wash., March 23, 1909.

Dearly Beloved Leader:— Having just finished my daily study of the Lesson-Sermon (Reality), I am filled with such an overwhelming sense of the magnitude of the service you have rendered mankind in pointing out the straight and narrow way between all the "isms" and "ologies" of these later days, that I am impelled to add this to the burden of thanksgiving that is pouring forth from so many appreciative hearts to you. No words of mine can portray the mental distress from which your teachings have saved me. As a professional nurse I was burdened with a sense of the world's great need of healing, both physical and moral. I longed to be a help, but many failures caused me to cry, Oh, how utterly helpless is a woman to baffle sin! It was my ambition for many years to take the training needed to become a missionary,—a medical missionary among the unfortunates in the city's slum,—but many things seemed to prevent, and in my discouragement I prayed that God would open the way.

This prayer was answered when I turned to Christian Science for relief in time of great need. Ere this need was fully met, the Christ-idea dawned on my consciousness, and I beheld my missionary work made plain. I entered the service at once by reforming the slums which Truth revealed to me in my own mental city. The surest way to reform the world proved to be the reforming of my own consciousness. The Bible has proved a treasure-house of healing balm for the mental, moral, and physical ills of mortal man, when unlocked by the "Key" you have given, but best of all, the personal striving for the redemption of souls was calmed, for Christian Science is our missionary; the healer and the healing; the preacher and the creed. And woman is not helplesss, but "mighty through God," for our work is to rejoice in ever-present Love; as the "voice of one crying in the wilderness" of mortal woe.

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