It is with deep gratitude to God that I try to tell at least something of the blessing that Christian Science has been to me for more than five years. In June, 1898, I had been suffering for some weeks from anæmia, and from lameness caused by water on the knees. A little book was lent to me, called "Rudimental Divine Science," and a great light and a great joy came to me on reading it; I saw that the cry of doubt and distress which had beclouded all my life, "How can a loving God permit all this suffering and evil, and why should an omnipotent God need to make use of it?" was answered. I pored over the book, hungering to know it was true, and thinking, Here is all I long for: a God, whom I can indeed love and worship with my whole heart and soul and mind. On the third day I resolved to trust to Spirit only, and left off all medicines, applications, and bandages, and in five days after receiving this little book I was quite healed,—feeling and looking well, and able even to run up and down stairs, which I had not done for more than a year, as I had never fully recovered from a similar attack in the previous year.
Many theological questions caused me much turmoil for some months, although I had many good demonstrations, especially a very speedy healing of a sprained ankle. After I had the privilege and great help of class teaching, these doubts and difficulties disappeared. There I learned how Christian Science protects from evil, so that I now rejoice in very good health and strength, instead of being constantly subject to attacks of bronchial catarrh, anæmia, neuralgia, and indigestion.
For this freedom from bondage I am indeed grateful. Yet an even deeper sense of thankfulness is continually with me for the revelation of God as it is given in our text-book, "The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and sendeth no evil and no sin upon man" (Science and Health, p. 140). I give joyful thanks to the Father for again sending the truth that makes free, as He has done to this age through our Leader, Mrs. Eddy.— Ealing, London, England.
