Letters from the Field

with contributions from Marjorie N. Buffum, Therese K. Batten, Harriet O. Jenkins

"I want to tell how I love the Christian Science sanatorium. It was my privilege to spend a week of rest and study there last March, and I look back upon it with the most profound and growing gratitude. The selfless service which I saw there has been an inspiration to me in the practice of Christian Science and service in church work ever since. The healing which I saw going on in others, and which I felt going on in myself, gave me a sense of the nearness of the Christ, impossible to put into words, but which I hope to put into deeds. Healing effects of my stay at the sanatorium have been appearing ever since. A false sense of responsibility and a clutching affection for a member of my family have been healed to a marked degree, and a greater sense of humility and deeper appreciation of the efforts of others have come to me. I know that I received an impetus toward laying my 'earthly all on the altar of divine Science' (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 55) which will gather momentum as time goes on. When Christian Scientists the world over give their every moment to God, as our dear workers at the sanatorium do, we shall certainly all be 'with one accord in one place,' and we shall see healing results which would satisfy our beloved Leader.

"No one could be at the sanatorium in any capacity, or for ever so short a time, without praying more earnestly and honestly in his heart,

" 'My prayer, some daily good to do
To Thine, for Thee;
An offering pure of Love, whereto
God leadeth me.'

"(Poems by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 13.)

"(Mrs.) Marjorie N. Buffum, New York, New York."

"Words can scarcely convey my gratitude and deep appreciation for the privilege of a short stay at the Christian Science sanatorium. It was an experience for which I shall never cease to be grateful; and I have returned to my home refreshed, and with a deeper desire for greater consecration and better work. I am grateful, too, that through the beautiful and unselfed service of every loving worker in this peaceful haven I seem to have gained a clearer realization of what real service means; and I know as never before that loving is service and that service is loving, and that we cannot render the one without the other. I am renewedly grateful to our beloved Leader, whose inspired devotion and untiring labor made this home at Single Tree Hill possible. It is indeed a city set upon a hill, whose light is not hid.

"(Mrs.) Therese K. Batten, New York, New York."

"I want to add my word of appreciation and gratitude for the Christian Science sanatorium. It opened its doors to us at a time of great need, and my husband received a wonderful healing while there. I was not especially desirous of going there, for I did not know what it offered; and it was only at the suggestion of a faithful practitioner in London, England, that I sent in the application. But I can speak now from knowledge I received through actual experience, and can say that I consider it the most blessed home on earth, and that I look back upon the months spent under its sheltering wings as the most profitable of my life. I shall strive more earnestly to show forth the Christian qualities I saw on all sides of me.

"(Mrs.) Harriet O. Jenkins, St. Louis, Missouri."

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