In Malachi we read: "Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." This is the experience of those who take up the study of Christian Science, and it certainly has been mine.
When I was still quite young I found that the teachings of the church I then attended were becoming more and more unacceptable to me. I could not love a God whom we were taught to fear and whose displeasure we seemed constantly to incur. I finally gave up going to church, with the feeling that I must be very lacking in religious sense, but I could not continue to acquiesce in a concept of the Supreme Being that was so different from my own sense of right and justice. It was many years before I found the meaning of God as Love, and His nearness. They were not, however, hopeless or fruitless years, for I found grains of truth along the way; but when Christian Science came into my life I knew that all the rest was a mere preparation and that this is the whole truth. My healing was mental and moral, and while it has not been rapid the understanding gained has been convincing and enduring. I know the light will grow as the problem is worked out.
I have also been healed of two disorders of years' standing. I have given up glasses after having worn them fifteen years, and scarcely know when I ceased to need them. Since then I have used my eyes for the closest reading, seven hours a day for eight months, without fatigue or any inconvenience. Previously I had to give up different courses of study, and wear dark glasses, owing to the acute suffering which invariably followed. I also had a chronic catarrhal affection, which I had come to believe was incurable. I had consulted the best specialists in New York city, London, and Paris, and had taken several celebrated European "cures." For three years now there has been no evidence of this complaint, and as in the case of the glasses, I do not recall just when it was overcome. I did not have treatment for either of these infirmities; they are simply among the bad habits which this truth has swept away.
