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RALPH R. CHAPMAN
Dear Leader: — Some four years ago a certain New York City newspaper was making a bitter attack upon you, and I took a fiendish delight in blue penciling the articles and sending my paper away after half reading it. A little over a year and a half ago I attended my first Wednesday night meeting, entirely to please some dear friends, and with the belief of being utterly disgusted at the very mention of the name Mary Baker Eddy or Christian Science, but what I saw and heard that night led me to look into the matter thoroughly and honestly, with the result that I myself not only received physical healing benefits, but a spiritual uplifting beyond description, proving your statement on page 254 of your book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that "when we wait patiently on God and seek Truth righteously, He directs our path." I have often felt that I owed you personally an apology for my previous thought, comments, and actions, hence this letter; and just here I wish to say that I have rectified the wrong done in the family by sending them those papers, and in that home today can be found your books. I cannot refrain from telling you what a world of comfort your book "Miscellaneous Writings" has been to me at a most trying time, in showing me so clearly that it is to God, and not to personality, that we must look. In all humbleness I thank you, beloved Leader, for the love which I know you send out to all, as is so beautifully told by you in your article "Judge Not," page 290 of the same book. I am daily striving to be worthy of the name Christian Scientist, and again Jesus' saying has in a degree been proven: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Faithfully
yours,
Christian Science Sentinel, October 9, 1909 |
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