I too would join in that grand chorus of praise and gratitude which is being sent forth through our periodicals, in the hope that others who hear it may likewise come into the freedom revealed in Christian Science. Although pronounced a hopeless invalid by physicians and friends, I still had an inner conviction that there was a way out of my suffering if I could only find it.
While searching earnestly for light, I decided to investigate Christian Science. At first, in my blindness, it appeared to me ridiculous, and then I began to see its beauty and to pray that if it were true I might know it to be so. I asked for treatment from a practitioner, and after five weeks my physical condition was improved more than the physicians had thought possible, and I had come to believe that Christian Science is really the "pearl of great price;" but many clouds were over me, and it seemed to me then that I must slowly grope my own way toward the light. I felt that divine Love was leading me, and came to care less about the physical healing, though that was still a need, than for enlightenment.
Needless to say the healing came in proportion as my understanding increased, and I awoke to realize that Christian Science had given me not only health but an object in life, the means of helping others, and the consciousness that all our troubles are but shadows and that we have a rule by which we can dispel them. I am profoundly grateful to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy. We cannot fail to recognize that although she might have been satisfied to reap the great blessing of her discovery for herself alone, her great love for suffering humanity led her, through much toil and sacrifice and in spite of ingratitude and ridicule, to present her gospel of healing to the world.— Cocoanut Grove, Fla.
