"The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great...

R. C. B.

"The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light." This text means much to me. For many years I was in darkness because I knew not how to open my windows towards Jerusalem and let in this light that would cause "thy darkness to be as the noonday."

There came to me a great desire for a better understanding of life and its demands, a willingness to do God's will if only it could be made plain to me, and I now see that my desire was a prayer which was answered almost immediately, for I was led to Christian Science and healed at once of the severe headaches from which I had suffered many years. After such healing how could I help wanting to know something of the wondrous power that had wrought this change from sickness to health.

I commenced the study of Science and Health with the thought that its truth had been proved and that I could understand it, and how can I express in words the revelation it was to me. The Bible, which had previously been a sealed book, was now illumined. I knew I was a disciple of Christ, and I began to study and ponder his teachings, knowing if I were faithful the Christ-truth would lead me to "rivers of living water."

I have passed through great sorrow, but can truthfully say, God has never forsaken me, that underneath have been the "everlasting arms." How grateful we are that one disciple was pure and good enough to perceive this great truth, revealed to her through spiritual sense, and was enabled to make it plain to all receptive hearts, and that some time all will know that God reigns supreme now, that we need not to look to some future state to have all sin and sickness cease, and all tears wiped away. If we will only cling to God, never doubting, we shall know that nothing but good, nothing but love can come from Him. In proportion as we turn away from the material sense of things, and our consciousness is filled with the spiritual sense, we shall begin to realize that God is the only power, and all will be made plain here and now.

R. C. B., Providence, R. I.

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