Having had to-day a beautiful demonstration of divine Love. I feel constrained to write something by way of giving back to those by whom I have been helped, something in return.
I have been interested in Christian Science, a little over two years, and have been a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Elyria, since last June. I became interested in this beautiful Truth through the advocacy of friends who had been greatly helped by it. Having been given a few Sentinels and Journals to read, and having read them with an earnest desire to know what they contained, it was soon apparent to myself and friends that I was rapidly improving in health. Every one exclaimed upon meeting me, "How much better you are looking," and of course asked who I was doctoring with now. I told the plain truth about the matter, and soon, through the kindness of a dear friend, procured Science and Health, and the good work begun, continued. Next to my Bible, Science and Health is the most precious book to me. I was, for a number of years, a diligent' Bible student, but Science and Health is indeed the "Key to the Scriptures," for it has unlocked for me many a dark passage heretofore unappreciated, and not at all understood. If I should not receive any more benefit from this book than I have already gained, I shall have been a thousand times repaid for having purchased it. I am thankful that nothing can rob me of this understanding of divine Love. I say all honor to Mrs. Eddy for the self-sacrificing life she is living. She deserves laurels of love for that which she has so unselfishly given to the world. She has shown us the true nature of divine Love.
I was an invalid for about fifteen years, and had been repeatedly told by physicians that I would never be well. When I began the study of Science and Health, I did not think of getting well, I thought if it were the religion of Jesus Christ I wanted it. I never took up the book, that I did not raise a silent prayer to God, to enlighten my understanding if this work was of God; if it were not of God, that He might help me to let it alone. I finally became convinced that it was of God and, with my Bible, it became my daily food. I have never been sick in bed a day since, and have eaten everything that I wished, and that physicians said I could never eat. I could not go out evenings, nor in any but fine weather, and now I am out in all kinds of weather, both day and night, and have never experienced any bad results. I can now understand man's true relation to God, and the fact that what heretofore seemed so real, is the unreal; that which seemed to be something, is nothing in the realm of Spirit. I have had innumerable proofs of this truth, which blesses mankind, and will some time in the future give some of them, for publication. To-day error tried to assert itself as something, but my Bible and Science and Health consulted, I soon realized anew the nothingness of error, and the allness of truth.
