Letters from the Field

with contributions from May E. Felter, Gwendolen Weaver

"Each day I realize more and more how very grateful I am for the wonderful experience of being a guest at the Christian Science sanatorium. When I entered the sanatorium I was to sense a wreck, both physically and mentally. I had been battling with stomach trouble for more than four years. In fact, I was never free from nausea and terrific pain in my head. I had almost given up hope of ever being well and happy again, when my loving family, who had been so patient with me, suggested that I go to the Christian Science sanatorium. I consented, but was still somewhat doubtful.

"I might say here that I had had many beautiful healings and knew that nothing but this wonderful truth could ever free me from the seeming bondage; but discouragement had taken such a strong hold on me that I could see nothing but darkness ahead. The very minute I stepped inside the doors of that beautiful home I could see light; and such a sense of joy and peace came over me! When I returned home, just two weeks later, I was entirely free, and have never had any return of the trouble since. Many other healings took place at the same time.

"My husband, who spent only two days at the sanatorium, also saw the new light dawning, and was healed of the smoking habit.

"I am so grateful to the associates and the loving practitioner who helped me out of the darkness. I am not only grateful for my own healings, but also very grateful for all the other healings that have taken place and are taking place each and every day at the sanatorium.

"My joy and gratitude are beyond expression.

"(Mrs.) May E. Felter, Greenwich, Connecticut."

"It would be impossible for me to end this season of the year without an expression of gratitude to you, to The Christian Science Board of Directors, and to all those who made it possible for me to be a guest in the sanatorium of The Christian Science Benevolent Association and to be so wonderfully protected and cared for while there. It was my privilege to be a guest for six weeks. While there, through study and the loving help of a practitioner and others, I was enabled to get a much clearer sense of the true brotherhood of man and in a measure lay aside, with great joy, a bit more of the belief in a selfhood apart from God.

"I do not believe any one, unless he has had the opportunity of being a guest, associate, or worker in this home, has any concept of the vast amount of good the Association is doing to free mankind from the illusion of a mind apart from God. Here let me speak of the associate workers, who give such humble, willing service, express such unity of purpose, and keep such perfect order and harmony. It will be a great joy to tell others of the many blessings The Christian Science Benevolent Association is bestowing on the world. I do not believe we who are out West half appreciate, partly through ignorance, what really has been and is being accomplished.

"It is quite unnecessary to tell you I have been so greatly strengthened that I expect very shortly to reenter school,—and am, oh, so much better fitted to be obedient to God's demands and of service to my brother-man. Of course, you know, and I know, words can never express my gratitude. Only by going forth and each hour of the day proving it, can I honestly express my thanks to God, the source of all true existence and blessedness.

"(Miss) Gwendolen Weaver, Portland, Oregon."

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