Thanks to our heavenly Father, I have been shown the way to health and happiness in Christian Science. Words cannot express my gratitude for the many blessings I have already received as the result of my reading of the Bible and Science and Health. My first healing was from an attack of acute lung trouble. About eight o'clock one evening I was taken very ill at church and had to be brought home, but it seemed to me I could not live until I got there; indeed I could scarcely speak. My husband became frightened and wanted to send for a physician, but I told him as best I could that I wanted a Christian Science practitioner. Accordingly one was called about nine o'clock. I was able to lie down at five o'clock in the morning and slept for two or three hours; then I got up and worked about the house all the forenoon. I had dinner for my husband at the noon hour and was perfectly well.
About four months later my only child, a son twenty-eight years old, passed on, and it seemed more than I could bear; but I am thankful to God for the understanding I have received in Christian Science. I know my boy still lives, and from discontent I have been lifted into harmony and peace, that peace "which passeth all understanding." I have also been healed of gall-stones, from which I had suffered for six years. That was about three years ago, and I have not had an attack since. The doctor told me I would have to submit to an operation or I could not live, but Truth has done the work.
As I often say, the spiritual understanding is more than all else to me. I am indeed grateful for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science, and thankful to God every day for the revelation of this truth through our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy.— Mattoon, Ill.
