It is a joy to tell others of the many changes which have come into my life through the action of Christian Science. I have been completely healed of a weak back which gave me constant pain, and which was supposedly caused by three different falls. I have also been healed of weak eyes, said by oculists to have been due to defective structure. I have been changed from a tired, nervous, and unhappy person to a strong and healthy one, full of that joy of living which the knowledge of Truth always brings. The realization of dominion over the body was a wonderful experience to me, but I soon saw that my work had only begun, and that it should go on to complete dominion over all my mental activity.
When I began to look into my mental abode, I found to my great surprise that I had been living in a "den of thieves." Every thought I had was robbing me of some part of man's spiritual inheritance. To change all this seemed a stupendous task, but I saw that it was the real work of the Christian Scientist, and that it meant the patient, persistent, and neverceasing challenge of every thought which presented itself to my consciousness. First of all, I found that it was necessary to eliminate the belief that life and substance, cause and effect, intelligence and law are properties of matter, and also to see that they each and all belong inherently in Spirit, God. I found that all my inclinations and desires, my sense of supply and of all human relationships, my faith in the "powers that be," had to be changed from an unreal material basis to the spiritual. I found that I was controlled by a disposition which was most tyrannical, irritable, and miserably narrow in its petty, selfish point of view.
It came upon me suddenly one day that in my own estimation I was the center of the universe, with everything revolving around me in proportionate importance as it fed my sense of self-love and self-importance. No wonder I had no peace or happiness within or without. To come into the transforming understanding of Christian Science was like coming out of a dark and dreary prison into a beautiful garden, with wonderful vistas of loveliness stretching away in every direction.
