In response to the suggestion in the Journal, I send you a short sketch of my experience in gaining an understanding of Christian Science, which makes whole all who come into its blessed light.
The healing was not done at once, and by another. I had literally to work out my own salvation, from sin and its results. But I at once saw that Christian Science was the way through which all mystery must be cleared up; and that it would reveal to my waiting heart a resting place. This was enough then, for the day star of hope had indeed risen, and healing I felt was assured.
I had been taught from childhood orthodox views of God, the Saviour, heaven, and the place of eternal punishment; but as I grew older I found no comfort in a doctrine which could not be understood. In vain I asked the minister who baptized me the meaning of certain passages in the Bible. He could only reply:"We must leave all to God, my child. I cannot answer you." As time passed on the way grew darker, and mind and body bore the marks of the struggle for rest. How I prayed and cried out to God for help which never came!, How sad the thought that to-day thousands are crying out in anguish to a God who does not hear— a God created by their own false sense of their needs.
