I have long felt that I would like to express my gratitude for the great blessing that has come to me through Christian Science.
After seeking for many years, without avail, to gain health through the means of materia medica, Christian Science restored me to health. For this I am very grateful; but what I value far more, is that it is healing me from sin. It has revealed to me the Principle of Being; it has given me an unvarying standard of right by which every thought, every motive, can be put to the test. When we adjust our thoughts and motives to this Principle, it is indeed "a staff upon which to lean" (Science and Health, p. 217); but when they are not in harmony with this Principle, it becomes a "chastening rod."
I am also most grateful for my healing from scepticism. I had no religious teaching previous to the time that I began the study of Christian Science. My parents belonged to a society called Freie Gemeinde,—Free Community,—and did not believe in the teaching of the Bible. It was not until after I had been married some years, that I came to the conclusion one day, that I ought to read the Bible so as to be able to judge for myself as to whether its teaching was objectionable, and whether it deserved the ridicule and censure it received at the hands of my friends. I began Bible reading, but was not able to understand what I read, and not being able to free myself from the sense of prejudice I had in regard to it, the reading did not profit me any, and I dropped it again.
