I wish to give expression to that sense of gratitude which has come to me through Christian Science. I am most deeply grateful to God for all the good which I experienced in my former life, but more grateful yet for the recognition gained in Christian Science that God was not the sender of the sorrow and trouble experienced in times past, but rather that these untoward conditions had their origin in the human sense of separateness from God, in false thinking and acting.
I, too, have experienced that "the darkest hour is nearest the dawn." For many years I acted as the nurse of several members of my family who were ill, and I did so till they passed on, the physicians having given up all hope of their recovery. Then I was left alone, mourning for those whom I had lost. I was broken down in mind and body: but since I had to live on, I thought I might as well try to improve my physical condition by a sojourn in a sanitarium. I was relieved physically, but the mental suffering remained. It was then that the first rays of the divine light of Christian Science shone upon me. Although it did not seem possible at once to adjust my thought to this new world, I was enraptured with the glory which was being revealed to me, and peace came to my heart.
But there was more in store for me. With the growing recognition of man's spiritual being, I ceased to look for my dear ones where we had laid their remains, for they were restored to me in knowing that their spiritual individuality and identity was forever preserved in Truth. Children of God, coexistent with Him, they live forever in the one real, spiritual world, though seemingly on a different plane of consciousness from my own. Moreover, Jesus' words have certainly become true: "Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother."
