It is about ten years since I first became interested in Christian Science. It came to me in answer to my earnest prayers to be shown the Truth. I had been long struggling in the darkness of religious creeds and dogmas of various kinds, disheartened for several years. Constant anxiety and fears for the future brought me into a state of ill health and despondency. I was troubled with dyspepsia and extreme nervousness. From this state of ill health and doubt and despair Christian Science rescued me. The bliss of perfect freedom from creeds, gave me such an impetus upward that I forgot my body, and was well before I knew it.
I am a teacher in the public school, and I find that Christian Science is the sure remedy for every trouble in the daily work of the school. It cures bad temper, faultfinding, and impatience as nothing else can do. It solves every difficulty, whether in the class-room or on the playground. It is the greatest blessing for which I have to be thankful. It makes me try to be loving, forgiving, charitable, and unselfish in my family and neighborhood. I try to be a close student of our revered Mother's works and of the Journal and Sentinel. I cannot get along without them. I have no criticism or unkind feeling for the Orthodox Church. I find hosts of consecrated, noble, Christian men and women in the Church who are doing all they can in the understanding they have attained to, and am willing to confess that I was not half so good, a Christian, even with the light I had, as I might have been if I had been less selfish. Christian Science has opened my eyes to see how selfish and narrow our religion can be when unillumined by the true Light.
Great Bend, Kan.
