Letters to the Sentinel

with contributions from Elizabeth J. Sleeper, H. Sue Stones, Janet T. Colman

Dear Sentinel:— Four years ago, when I had been reading Science and Health for about three months, I went to visit my husband's people, who were stanch Methodists. During a conversation on the subject the dear father, whose religious living I had always respected so much, said, "Daisy, your new religion will lead you to hell." That was a pretty hard thing to have said to me then by one whom I loved dearly, but I had gained enough of the Truth not to be moved.

This last winter our boys subscribed for the Sentinel for six months to be sent to grandpa. After he had received it several weeks, we went to visit him again and we found many beautiful evidences that the Truth, as it comes through the Sentinel, had changed the thought of this dear one greatly. After reading in the Sentinel the account of the Communion service, the meeting in Tremont Temple, and Mrs. Eddy's address, he said he had never heard of such a wonderful religious demonstration. At another time before a room full he said he would not dare to say that Christian Science would not be the coming religion, such rapid strides as it had already made.

After looking to see if there is any word from Mrs. Eddy, I look for the "Questions and Answers." The answers to the questions one has to meet for oneself or others so often are answered in a clear, helpful way. The explanation of the chastisement of Love was very plain. I thank God and Mrs. Eddy and all the dear ones, publishers and contributors, that we are privileged to have such reading as comes to us through the Christian Science Publishing Society.

Elizabeth J. Sleeper.

West Derby, Vt.

Dear Sentinel:—In striking contrast to the testimonial in the current number of the Christian Science Journal, in which the first joint of a child's finger was wrenched off in a wringer and afterward replaced by a new joint through Christian Science treatment, I submit the following from the Kansas City Star, which shows the inadequacy of material methods as compared with the Christ healing.

Miss H. Sue Stones.

Death under Chloroform.

J. F. Jolley, a well-known machinist of Kansas City, Kan., foreman of the machinery in the fertilizing department at the Armour packing house, died yesterday afternoon while under the influence of an anaesthetic administered in the office of Dr. J. W. Miller for the purpose of preparing him for a surgical operation.

One of Jolley's fingers was crushed by accident in the machinery at the packing house. He went to the surgeon's office at the corner of Central Avenue and State Line Street to have the finger cut off. The injury gave him such pain that it was necessary to administer chloroform. The operation was performed, but the injured man died.

Dear Sentinel:— When a child I was very much interested in a story I read about two travelers in the Alps. The cold was intense as they journeyed, and after a while one of them became overpowered with sleep, and fell down in the snow. The same feeling was felt by the other, but he knew the fatal consequences of falling asleep, so he began vigorously to shake and pound his companion in his efforts to rouse him. At last he was rewarded and he became warm himself through his exertions to help another.

As we are traveling up the hill of Science we may see a fellow traveler overcome in belief by the errors of sense, and may perhaps feel their effect ourselves, but if we go to work to help them, we shall gain the reward of work done unselfishly, of seeing our brother or sister saved "through Christ's precious love" (Science and Health), and shall gain a degree in working out our own Salvation.

Janet T. Colman.

The Church Standard says of Tennyson that his constant thought was that life was too noble a thing to be frittered away—a gift too splendid and God-given to be used otherwise than with reverence. To be true to the art which God had given him, true to himself, was surely to be true to God.

"The law of the increase of blessings, says Zion's Herald, "is that you must sow them in the soil of unselfishness."

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