A few years ago, I joyfully perceived in Christian Science...

A few years ago, I joyfully perceived in Christian Science the promised Comforter. Until then I had long been despondent, hating this mortal life (this routine for self), and was barely able to go through with it, even including Church going—so tired mentally! Yet because I thought God had made it, and had put me here, I kept on, thinking (for five years) I had to wear glasses to see; had to be deaf; could remember nothing; had to be too nervous to write legibly; to lie down and rest, if I swept a room, and so on, until I heard the voice of Truth call, to halt; "Be still, and know that I am God!" The light of understanding came to me, through the revelation from our Teacher, presented to the world in Science and Health. To me it has come to "rescue tired humanity." The peace and rest attending the acceptance of it, assure me of its Truth. I now learn that sure growth comes, not by working as I did at first (almost a determination to awaken the world and make it listen to her message). In my blind happiness I was going to help spread the news! I learned many useful lessons from it, and am thankful. One lesson is, I can "gain a true idea of God" only as I dethrone self and let "He whose right it is reign." —L. B. C.