merged into the one infinite Love.

As these pungent lessons became clearer, they grew sterner. Previously the
cloud of mortal mind seemed to have a silver lining; but now it was not
even fringed with light. Matter was no longer spanned with its rainbow of
promise. The world was dark. The oncoming hours were indicated by no floral
dial. The senses could not prophesy sunrise or starlight.

Thus it was when the moment arrived of the heart's bridal to more spiritual
existence. When the door opened, I was waiting and watching; and, lo, the
bridegroom came! The character of the Christ was illuminated by the
midnight torches of Spirit. My heart knew its Redeemer. He whom my
affections had diligently sought was as the One "altogether lovely," as
"the chiefest," the only, "among ten thousand." Soulless famine had fled.
Agnosticism, pantheism, and theosophy were void. Being was beautiful, its
substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem
of Christian Science.




THE GREAT DISCOVERY


It was in Massachusetts, in February, 1866, and after the death of the
magnetic doctor, Mr. P.P. Quimby, whom spiritualists would associate
therewith, but who was in no wise connected with this event, that I
discovered the Science of divine metaphysical healing which I afterwards
named Christian Science. The discovery came to pass in this way. During
twenty years prior to my discovery I had been trying to trace all physical