Article August 6, 1910 Issue

TRUTH REFORMATORY

MATTIE BEACH.

Christian Science is the only true reformatory institution in the world today. It not only reforms the sinner, but it pours its sweet influence into his life. In my own case it has changed and corrected an otherwise sour, discontented, and irritable disposition into one that is lovable, happy, and contented. It touched a tender chord in my mind, by its beneficent influence at the first service which I attended, in 1893. It took right hold of me, and has held me ever since. It has made a better woman of me at home, and in my domestic affairs it has made service light. In one instance I was made to see how beautifully we can accomplish this by doing all things as unto God.

I had always disliked to wash pots, and one day such an overwhelming sense of disgust came over me that I could not finish the washing of them. I turned away, declaring that I was an overburdened woman, doing menial service, and for a few moments I was very miserable over this thought. Then the "still small voice" of Spirit, or intuition, "the angel of his presence," whispered to me or gave me thought to read the leaflet "Service and Stipend." I obeyed this intuition and read it, and at the closing lines these verses from the Bible met my eye: "In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, Holiness unto the Lord; and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite [slave] in the house of the Lord of hosts."

Since that day I have never had a discordant thought to meet so far as my household duties are concerned. The "pots" have become as "the bowls before the altar," and as the days go by I find that, as one of our humns expresses it,—

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