I wish to make a grateful acknowledgment for the many benefits I have received through the understanding of Christian Science. Coming to it for relief from intense physical suffering, I little dreamed it was to set forever at rest my longing for Truth. For years I had searched for the Truth, reading everything that gave the least promise of a new and higher thought. I seemed to know there was provided something better than I had ever found: that God was too good to leave us hopeless, while looking high and low. I held fast to the Bible with one hand, saying it is our only hope, though I could find little comfort in it. Science and Health was lying on the table when I went for my first treatment, and, picking it up, I read, "The truth shall make you free." I turned quickly to the healer and said, "That is from the Bible; has Christian Science anything to do with the Bible?" "Yes; it is all Bible," she answered me. Then I thought. Is it possible these Scientists have found the Truth as known and practised by Jesus? In answer to that thought the windows of heaven were opened to my awakening consciousness, and many helpful, healing thoughts came to me during that first treatment; I knew I was there for this Truth, and I said, "Even though I should never be healed I know this is the Truth, and thank God for the suffering that has brought me here." All my questions were answered, all my physical claims were destroyed, and Life had a meaning, a purpose, a promise. For all this, and much more, I owe Mrs. Eddy, our dear Mother and Leader, a debt of gratitude that words can never express.
Chicago. III.
