An Open Letter

For several days I have had a sense of anxiety and fear lest I should fall into error, and not grow in Truth, as I had a desire to do. This day had been one of darkness and depression. At last I sat down, away from every one and faced this error. I said, I do not care what error says, It is all false. God said, “Fear not, I am with yon even to the end of the world.” Nothing can separate me from God.

Immediately an illustration came to my thought, like one talking to me. A little child was afraid to go through a dark hall into another room. Her father and mother assured her that there was nothing to fear, and bade her go. Her childlike faith and confidence enabled her to put aside her fears and go, thus proving the truth of their words.

Now God, our loving Father, has spoken to me through the Bible and Science And Health, telling me to go boldly forward through this seeming darkness of human beliefs, for it is nothing. Has He not said, “I am God, and there is none else?” “Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation; There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.”

Then shall I not become as trusting as a little child, and believe [understand] what God tells me, and go forward, knowing that God is all? Thus I communed for a time, and a sweet sense of God’s presence and power came to me.

A circumstance connected with this experience brought the realization of the one Mind more forcibly than ever before. A day or two after, I received letters from two dear friends in Truth giving the same assuring thoughts that came to me, only in a different form.

How the Sunday School lessons uncover the idolatry of this age. The churches are studying these lessons as simply referring to Israel of old. Why can they not see that they speak to the error to-day, and show us our sin. They speak with warning voice. Why will not all return to the Lord their God?