A recent visit to the little island of Guernsey forcibly reminded me of my former holiday there, about five years ago. I was then visiting a former matron in whose hospital I had once worked for two years as one of the nurses. She became alarmed at my rapidly increasing weakness, supposedly caused from Bright's disease and other ailments, and, though she knew nothing about Christian Science, she advised me to try it, saying that it could not do me any harm even if it did not do me any good. Through ignorance and prejudice on the subject I held out for several weeks; then, becoming desperate, I resolved, while attending a lecture on Christian Science, to ask for help. This was most lovingly given me, and physical troubles from which I had suffered all my life soon began to disappear, eventually doing so altogether; but the spiritual understanding which came through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the glorious light which our textbook throws upon the Bible, seemed even more wonderful to me.
I am increasingly thankful for the steady supply of spiritual food which reaches us through the Journal, the Sentinel, the Monitor, and other Christian Science literature. My gratitude to our Leader for the example she has given us cannot be expressed in words. May I prove a little bit of it in my life!
Weston-super-Mare, England.
