LETTERS OF SPECIAL INTEREST

with contributions from T. F. Tebbutt, Augusta E. Stetson

Bushire, Persian Gulf, May 5, 1907.

My Dear Mrs. Eddy:—I have been thinking the last few days that you would be glad to hear of the spread of Christian Science to these parts of the world, so well known in Biblical history. A little over five years ago I was appointed by the India Office in London to become an assistant superintendent under the Government of India, in this department, and was at once sent out to Arabia in charge of a submarine telegraph cable to be laid down between Southern Persia and Muscat in Arabia. About nine months before I left England I had become interested in Christian Science, and so of course I brought Science and Health out with me. On the very first day I landed at Bushire in Persia, one who has since become a good friend of mine became interested in Christian Science, and through him, a short time later, his father became interested, and is now a leading member of the newly established church in Johannesburg. At that time, five years ago, I was stationed here only about two months, and I feel sure that was the first introduction of Science and Health into Persia. Since then I have visited Arabia, Baluchistan, India, and Turkey, and have always taken Science and Health with me. On two occasions I have been up the river Shut-el-Arab almost to the junction of the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, between which lies the land upon which the Garden of Eden is supposed to have flourished.

When I first came to the land of the Medes and Persians no one had ever heard of Christian Science, but now, in Bushire, every one knows of it, and several are deeply interested, to the extent of reading the Lessons daily and striving, to the best of their knowledge of Christian Science, to live up to it. We have many proofs of God's loving care and we are all most thankful for this great truth that you have revealed to us through the pages of Science and Health. The Journals and Sentinels which reach us weekly are always a tremendous help and comfort.

Sincerely and gratefully yours,
T. F. Tebbutt.

New York, N. Y., May 12, 1907.

My Precious Leader:—I enclose some clippings from the New York Sun and Brooklyn Eagle. The other papers give some of my students' letters, but not all. Mrs. Margaret Beecher White is one of my dear students and a practitioner in our Reading Room. She and Mrs. Alice Beecher Hooker Day are among my prominent and intellectual students, and both have come out in print on this question. To-day the American consul and his wife from Bombay, India, were at church, and after service visited me in my home. At both services the auditorium and the overflow were filled to their utmost seating capacity, except a few seats out of sight behind the large columns. Never was there such appreciation of you, dearest; never such recognition of your wonderful message to the world, and never, oh, never, such love and loyalty as we feel for our beloved, our precious Guide to eternal Life, as to-day. If I can do anything for you, dearest, will you let me know.

I am working and watching and praying, and demonstrating the healing power of Christian Science. Last Sunday a boy nine years of age was nearly given up by doctors. They declared that only one thing more could be done, and that was an operation which was most serious. I was called to calm the mother, who was nearly beside herself. I went into the room in the absence of the nurse, and audibly spoke to the child. Then I realized for myself just a few moments that Love filled the room, and went out and to church. In an hour the surgeons came with the doctors to consult and decide about the operation, when they were amazed to find the boy in a nearly normal condition. This was the end of the disease. The boy quickly improved and is the wonder of all interested. To have normal temperature restored in two hours has puzzled the doctors, who will learn later that the truth sets free, and that Christian Science teaches the way to health, harmony, and peace.

I send you more love than tongue or pen can convey. Forever and ever,

Your loving child, Augusta E. Stetson.

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