Letters to our Leader

with contributions from Ezra M. Buswell, Eldora O. Gragg, C. Morse Wescott, W. E. Painter

Beatrice, Neb., November 24, 1904.

Our Dear Leader:— Thought has been busy, this beautiful Thanksgiving morning, taking a retrospective glance over the past twenty years and more, thinking of the many blessings that have been ours, all of which we owe to our dear Father. In this our thought turns to you as the one on earth to whom we owe most gratitude and love, you who have patiently sacrificed so much that your followers may partake of the joys of Soul. Few can know of the great work you are daily doing for us better than can we, who spent four years so near your home, and saw your patient toil, your humility and love. Through such a consecrated life God speaks and the sick are healed. Your beautiful prayer, "Shepherd, show me how to go," is with us daily, and to our heartfelt desire there comes the answer, "This is the way, walk ye in it."

More than twenty years ago I was given up by eminent physicians. Hope had well-nigh faded out, and when the last straw of material relief had floated from my reach Christian Science was mentioned to me, and Science and Health was placed in my hands with the comforting assurance that I could heal myself by the study of it. I had not read many pages before I saw that it gave the correct view of the Bible, and at this point I was ready to part with materia medica forever. I studied this dear little book and the Bible faithfully. At the end of one year I realized that I was healed, and not a symptom of those troubles have ever returned. How just and right, therefore, that we should gratefully remember you this glad day, when the people of our nation are giving thanks? You already know we love you, but it may bring added comfort to your dear heart to know that my wife and I are giving our whole effort to this Cause that means so much to us. We thank God and are grateful to you that we can help the sinful out of their bondage and the sick out of their suffering, by doing as you have taught us. That we may faithfully imitate the example of Christ Jesus, as do you, is our daily desire.

We join in love to you.
Ezra M. Buswell.

[Telegram.]

Boston, Mass., December 3, 1904.

Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:— The association of students of Eldora O. Gragg, in annual meeting assembled, desire to express their great love and gratitude to you. By your words, your works, your unselfish life and constant devotion to the great Cause of Christian Science, life has been made sweeter, grander, nobler, and more spiritual for us: our prayerful desire is to follow meekly and in humility the path which you have pointed out to us. Our watchword shall be, love for God and man, and our goal, the manifestation and demonstration of this love in the healing of the sick and the sinful.

Lovingly yours,
Eldora O. Gragg. [For the Association.]

[Telegram.]

Brockton, Mass., December 8, 1904.

Reverend Mary Baker G. Eddy, Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

We, the members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Brockton, Mass., in meeting assembled, send to Stephen A. Chase a check for $785.45, the amount of our church building fund. It is an offering unto our God,—a Christmas gift,—a major peal in the ascending scale of the Christmas chimes. We listen "not for the backward ringing of the bells," but for that thought attuned by love which bids us follow Christ our Lord, and to hear through all the earth the glad tidings of joy that Christian Science brings. With hearts filled with love and loyalty to you, our beloved Leader, we consecrate ourselves anew unto God.

C. Morse Wescott, Clerk.

Burwell, Neb., November 17, 1904.

Dear Leader:—On reading the Church By-law in Sentinel of November 5, I at once resigned membership in two lodges, one of twenty-three years' and one of five years' affiliation. Christian Science has done so much for me that I intend to obey every requirement so far as I understand it.

Lovingly yours,
W. E. Painter.

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