I am grateful beyond expression for all that Christian Science has done and is doing for me. My blessings are so numerous that it is hard to know where to begin to tell of them. A little over three years ago Christian Science found me full of doubts and fears, these having produced a state of utter lack of confidence in myself. Upon my marriage I retired from public life, having been in grand opera both here and in Europe; but I allowed these fears and doubts to creep in to such a degree that I could not sing for any one, I would be so frightened. After being in Science only a little while, this all disappeared, for I had learned that to fear was to give power to something apart from God; that I could of my own self do nothing, and my talent and the ability to make use of it were God-bestowed.
I have been healed of hay-fever, stomach disorder, and heart trouble, and I no longer wear glasses, having laid them aside without treatment. Through the realization that everything I possessed was from God and was perfect, that nothing could change His ideas, that my imperfect thoughts about them alone needed to be changed, I was instantly healed. I do not remember when the heart trouble left me, but one Wednesday evening it suddenly dawned on me that I did not have it any longer.
I have had the blessing of class instruction, and during this time a dear sister passed on; but my sorrow was removed when I gained the understanding of Life, also by the realization that, as Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health, "man, being immortal, has a perfect and indestructible life" (p. 209). Above all is the great spiritual uplift which has come to me through Christian Science, and which far exceeds the physical healing. I have been enabled to help others, and this is also cause for joy. I am thankful to God, and glad it is never any effort to lay down my will to do His will in all things. I am more than grateful to Mrs. Eddy, who labored and suffered much to share with all mankind what God had revealed to her. She has restored the teachings of Christ Jesus and enabled even the children to apply Christian Science through her simple explanations of the Bible in its spiritual interpretation.— New York, N. Y.
