Letters January 22, 1927 Issue

Letters from the Field

with contributions from Marjorie N. Buffum, Therese K. Batten, Harriet O. Jenkins

"I want to tell how I love the Christian Science sanatorium. It was my privilege to spend a week of rest and study there last March, and I look back upon it with the most profound and growing gratitude. The selfless service which I saw there has been an inspiration to me in the practice of Christian Science and service in church work ever since. The healing which I saw going on in others, and which I felt going on in myself, gave me a sense of the nearness of the Christ, impossible to put into words, but which I hope to put into deeds. Healing effects of my stay at the sanatorium have been appearing ever since. A false sense of responsibility and a clutching affection for a member of my family have been healed to a marked degree, and a greater sense of humility and deeper appreciation of the efforts of others have come to me. I know that I received an impetus toward laying my 'earthly all on the altar of divine Science' (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 55) which will gather momentum as time goes on. When Christian Scientists the world over give their every moment to God, as our dear workers at the sanatorium do, we shall certainly all be 'with one accord in one place,' and we shall see healing results which would satisfy our beloved Leader.

"No one could be at the sanatorium in any capacity, or for ever so short a time, without praying more earnestly and honestly in his heart,

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