Although I have many times been conscious of lack of response to the loving invitation given to all Christian Scientists to bear testimony to the healing and countless other benefits that the teaching and study of Christian Science enables us to experience for ourselves when faithfully followed and applied, it has not been so much from a want of gratitude, but rather through yielding to the suggestion that it would be better to wait till some important demonstration had been made. I am beginning to realize, however, that no one proof of the healing power of Truth is more important than another; and so I feel encouraged at least to try to enumerate some of the many blessings of which I have become conscious during the last nine years.
I had been searching for years for a practical method of putting into practise the teachings of Christ Jesus, for I had always felt that they were right and true; but the failure of those in authority to explain the modus or to answer satisfactorily or intelligently any logical objections one might raise regarding their interpretation of these teachings, led me to the conclusion that they themselves could not explain because they also had failed to understand, and it was not until a Christian Scientist lent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, that I began to get a glimpse of the truth. From that time on, through the study of this wonderful revelation of the meaning of the Bible teaching, I found what I had been looking for, a logical and definite system by which I could learn how to overcome the difficulties which seemed to meet me everywhere and with which I seemed powerless to deal. The strain of constant fretting over troubles of many kinds had brought me to a state of misery, mental and physical, so that life would have seemed not worth living, had not "the light of the glorious gospel" of Christian Science dawned on my darkened sense. As through the gradual understanding and application of its teaching I was able to uncover the cause of much of the unhappiness in my life and find the remedy, the bodily suffering also began to disappear; the healing, through the reading of the text-book, being in some instances simply marvelous. The feeling of extreme weakness, which had been so great that at times I could hardly get up from my chair without faintness, gradually left me, and with it went that constant "tired" feeling which made life seem a burden. In fact my health is now normal and remains so, as long as I keep the commandments of divine Love. While I am fully conscious that much work remains to be done before all the seemingly discordant conditions of human life can be overcome, I have already had such convincing proofs of the power of Truth to destroy error that I can now understand the importance of our Leader's injunction, "Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil" (Science and Health, p. 571).— London, England.
