Failing to find physical ease after ten years' persistent adherence to the laws of materia medica, hygiene, and physiology, I turned to Christian Science. After reading the text-book, Science and Health, I found it was not a physical system out of order, but a mental system in dis-order; that there was no good in the thought-material I had been building with. I learned the "Scientific Statement of Being," p. 464, of Science and Health, and began to construct a new system by eliminating selfishness and sensitiveness; to purify it from thoughts of anger, hatred, jealousy, intolerance, and pride; improved circulation by allowing no sick, sinful, or discordant thoughts to clog or obstruct its harmonious action; strengthened it by taking less thought of self, and stimulated with the desire to know "God aright." I have proved beyond doubt that "Divine Love always has met, and always will meet, every human need" (Science and Health, p. 490). Love has destroyed all sense of chronic catarrh, dyspepsia, and neuralgia. This new regime did not mean immediate release, but the past ten years have been full of blessings, and the physical improvement but a way-mark in this beautiful old, yet new, Christ-Truth, for the peace which follows is beyond understanding until the experience is our own. Through the Journal I wish to express my gratitude to our dear Leader, Mary Baker G. Eddy, who through that wonderful book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," enables mankind to follow more closely the command of Jesus, who bade his disciples preach the gospel, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you."
Chicago, Ill.
