With gratitude to God and the hope that these few lines may be of some help to others, I gladly give my testimony. About a year ago, when suffering from a most painful sense of mental depression, groping in the dark, seeking for something, the want of which made life as then known blank and dreary, I turned to Christian Science. My physician had told me that materia media could do nothing for me, and at the same time lie remarked that I must cure myself. I, however, felt that I could do nothing for myself, but hoped that Christian Science might supply the help I needed. In this I was not disappointed. Mine has truly been a case of "out of darkness into light;" out of troubled waters into the peace of God's presence. The joy of knowing God as Life, the ineffable peace and security of consciousness, the certainty of immortality, before which the blankness of despair gave place to the joyous feeling that "all is well,"' — all these, with many other benefits, including the abandonment of the smoking habit after thirty years of slavery to it, are the results of one year in Christian Science.
I can truly say with the psalmist: "I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God."
Thus it is that I have been brought to express in these few inadequate words my heartfelt thanks to God, that through the teachings of His servant, Mrs. Eddy, I have found the priceless blessings of peace, of Truth and Love. Spokane, Wash.
