It is now something over four years since I took up the study of Christian Science for physical healing, and during that period I have been so wonderfully benefited and blessed that I feel the time has come when I should make a just acknowledgment of what Truth has done for me. When I turned to Christian Science it was as a last resort, as I had suffered for many years from various diseases, and although almost continually under the care of physicians, I was steadily growing worse. I finally reached that state of hopeless despair where all seemed dark and dreary, and my life so useless that I prayed to be taken from an existence which seemed to hold nothing for me but continued suffering and misery. All that loving hearts and willing hands could do was done to relieve my suffering, but to no avail; and I was steadily sinking under the burden that was seemingly becoming heavier each day. Believing it to be the will of God that this burden of ill-health had been laid upon me, I had always prayed that I might be resigned to His will, and tried to bear my lot with Christian fortitude; but when I found that instead of being resigned, I was becoming bitter and unchristian in my thought, I was indeed most miserable.
Such being my mental condition when I came to Christian Science, to my joy and surprise I found that instead of drifting away from God, as I feared I was doing, I was walking right into His loving arms through the overcoming of the suffering that I had prayed to be released from. Divine Love had answered my prayer; but not in my way, for instead of death God gave me life, and hope in place of despair. Words are inadequate to express the wonderful peace and happiness which flooded my being when I realized that God had set me free from the terrible burden of suffering which had seemingly kept me in bondage for so many years. With the psalmist I can say truly that I was lifted out of "an horrible pit," and my feet set upon a rock. To be lifted out of the pit of sickness and despair into the glorious light and liberty of the children of God, was indeed a foretaste of heaven.
I was wonderfully healed during the first week's treatment of some diseases of many years' standing, and while I am exceedingly grateful for the physical help received, I count it as the least of the blessings that have come into my life through the study of Science and Health. The awakening to a higher and holier life has brought to me the peace that "passeth all understanding," and the more absorbed I become in the study of Christian Science, the less I care for material pleasures. My heart is filled to overflowing with gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for bringing this glorious truth to weary, sin-sick humanity.
