As I try to find fitting words with which to express my gratitude for a knowledge of the truth, thought goes back to a day several years ago when a telegram was received that my only child had passed on suddenly while far from home. The world was darkened for me in the days of that last sad home-coming, but I tried to look to God, who I felt sure did all things well. Friends tenderly sought to comfort me, and one day I saw upon my table a little book which I did not recognize. Upon looking into it I found it was a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, a book which I had long desired to see but which until then had not come into my hands.
This book had been left by a young relative, who sought to supply my need in the best way he knew. He told me afterward that he did not understand the book very well but thought it might help me. As I read it, peace came into my heart, for I began to understand my Bible and the real meaning of prayer. I gladly turned away from the old thought of a God who sends both evil and good, to realize the presence of good only. Since that time I have had many demonstrations over physical ills, and these I gratefully recognize as additional evidence that God is with us. As one inharmony after another has been eliminated from my life, I feel that my feet are indeed planted on the rock Christ Jesus. By constant study of the Lesson-Sermon I am growing in the knowledge of God, and have never had even a temptation to go back to material remedies, but rejoice, as Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 140), "in the affluence of our God."
Let none think they are too young in Science or in years to do the Master's work; and I would say to those who are seeking to know more about God, Do not be afraid of Christian Science, for it is but the "old, old story of Jesus and his love." It teaches that we can never go beyond a Father's care, and that by overcoming the false, the fleeting and temporal, not only a part but all of God's children will dwell in the city that "lieth foursquare."— Clarinda, Iowa.
