I should like to express in some measure my great gratitude for Christian Science and all that it has done for me, physically, mentally, and morally. I have been a student of Christian Science for four years, and they have been the happiest and most profitable years of my life. Before coming into Science I was in a very bad condition physically, and had been nearly all my life. This interfered with my work very much; indeed, I had the record of having been away from the office more than any one else. As a contrast, during the time I have known of Christian Science I have only been absent on sick-leave for one afternoon, and that was a long time ago. The understanding of Christian Science is a great help to me in business. At one time it seemed as if I had altogether too much to do, and I could see no way out of it. I then tried to realize the truth about God and man, as our text-book shows us how to do, and that truth did certainly make us free. I got the help that was needed, and am very grateful for this demonstration, because the error seemed very real indeed. I have also been healed of a very bad form of headache from which I used to suffer a great deal. It was supposedly inherited, and I remember that a doctor whom I consulted told me of a medical man who had to suffer in the same way that I did, and that this ailment could not be cured by materia medica. I am, however, very glad and grateful to say that Christian Science has healed me, and I know it has enabled me to overcome many other troubles. While I am deeply grateful for the physical benefits received, I am even more so for the moral and spiritual uplifting which Christian Science brings, and also for showing me how to overcome in a practical manner all that is wrong and evil, though I feel that I have yet a great deal to overcome.
At the time I was led to Christian Science I was exceedingly unhappy from various causes, and had given up going to church for some years, because I felt worse after being there, although I had tried honestly to interest myself in church matters. I longed to know the truth about God and man, and I tried to act up to my highest light, though at times failing sadly. The Bible I never read, as it did not interest me, but I had never given up repeating the Lord's Prayer, and with its illuminating and scientific interpretation, as given in Science and Health, it is significant to me to remember that I had tried to grasp the meaning of the Lord's Prayer in some such way. At this time a relative asked me if I would go with her to the Christian Science service here. This was the first time that I ever heard of Christian Science, and my first impressions of it, as gained at that beautiful Wednesday evening meeting, have never left me. I had not been a quarter of an hour in the hall, listening to the Scriptural reading and the selections from Science and Health, when an overwhelming conviction came to me that this was the truth, and a great joy took possession of my whole being. This sense of joy has never left me, but has developed in these years into an understanding and knowledge, faint though it be, of the allness of Truth.
It is impossible for me to tell all that Christian Science means to me; I know it is gradually transforming my whole life, but I should like to say how grateful I am to God for having revealed the truth through our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, in our text-book, Science and Health, also for the inspiration of our church services here in Edinburgh, and for all our literature. I should also like to say how grateful I am for having been admitted as a member of The Mother Church, as well as of First Church of Christ, Scientist, here.— Edinburgh, Scotland.
