"Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies." Starting with. these words of the psalmist, I desire to give thanks and testify to my healing, for God, infinite Love and goodness, has done and is doing great things unto me through Christian Science. T have been healed of a severe nervous affection and melancholy, which for several years had kept growing worse, with all the attendant exhausting troubles. In the spring of 1907 I had to go to a sanitarium, and in the following August I was again obliged to give up my office work. I looked forward to the future with sorrow and anguish.
It seemed like a ray of light from above when I heard— seemingly through chance—of the healing and beneficent influence of Christian Science, and I immediately felt that here was the fountain from which I might again draw health and strength; and, indeed, I have been richly rewarded for my trust, although I am but a beginner. New, uplifting, and ennobling thoughts follow me in my home life as well as in my business. The daily fulfilment of duties is easier, and tasks are performed more quickly than for years past. Although the old Adam—that is, material sense—often tries to make good its claims, the divine thought always prevails in those hours of trial, and tells me that God is good, that He is Truth, Life, Love, omnipotence; that nothing but good can come from God, for He Himself declared that the world He created was "good" and "very good." God made neither disease, sin, nor death, and man is God's image and likeness. I therefore realize that material beliefs are not real and have no power over me; for, as they do not come from God, they have no righteous existence.
These wondrous, peace-giving fundamental statements of Christian Science bring courage and confidence into our daily lives. They change our mode of thinking entirely, they breathe love, goodness, confidence. Material sense with all its "ifs" and "buts" gradually retreats into the background; and our thoughts, filled with longing after God, continually soar upward unto divine Love. I thank God, above all, for Christian Science and for its noble Leader.— St. Gallen, Switzerland.
