That Christian Science heals our mental as well as our bodily ills, I can from experience affirm. When first i saw Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I had been for some years little else than an infidel. Not having found in my church the spiritual light I longed for, I turned away from orthodoxy, gave up its God, its creeds, and its dogmas, closed the Bible, and ceased to pray. There remained, however, in my heart a longing for something higher than humanity could bestow. I turned to some of the "isms" of the day, hoping they could satisfy me, but only disappointment met my research. I found myself in a most dismal state of mind, and when ' to this was added a great sorrow, I felt I had more than I could bear, and self-destruction seemed to offer the only way out of my troubles.
It was here that Christian Science came to me, a deliverer from my woes. As I read the text-book, Science and Health, a spiritual light dawned upon me, revealing "a new heaven and a new earth," wherein dwelt a God of love, to whom I could trustingly pray and gladly say, "Thy will be done," for I learned that His will is to "deliver us from evil," and it is not His will that death should rob us of our loved ones, or that we should suffer tribulation of any kind. Heaven was no longer a far-away realm to be reached through death, and even then by only a part of the human family—a teaching that had always made me rebellious. The "Key to the Scriptures" unlocked the door of heaven for me, and I found that it is here and now, to all who live righteously; that heaven is a state of mind and not a locality.
Thus the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures has been unfolded to me day by day, as I have studied the Lesson-Sermons given in the Christian Science Quarterly, and have read our Christian Science publications, the Journal and the Sentinel. This spiritual awakening and growth in the knowledge of the truth have not been all the blessings which Christian Science has brought me. By reading our text-book and Mrs. Eddy's other writings I have been healed of diseases which had troubled me for years before I came into Christian Science. I have also been healed of some that have appeared since; and today, after some six years in Science, I enjoy good health without having used a single material remedy.
