It is with joy and thanksgiving that I express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. In January, 1914, I began to study Science and Health with a thought of proving all things and holding fast that which is good. Although I had tried to be a Christian, there was a longing deep down in my heart to know how to overcome my trials, but burdened as I was by sickness, fear, and sin, I seemed to be unable to rise above temptation.
Before I had read Science and Health a month, however, I was lifted above the clouds of material sense and found myself a new woman in thought and in health, and began to see how I might love my neighbor even as myself. I was in a world more beautiful, among a people more lovely than I had ever imagined existed; yet the world had not changed, only my thought about it. I found good where before I had found evil, for the light of understanding was' clearing my vision and helping me to discern the good, the real, the true. I was lifted right up on the mountain top of happiness, peace, and joy, but I did not stay there; it has been a case of rising and falling, for I had work to do and every step has had to be proven. God's power has been demonstrated in the correction of many discordant conditions that seemed to exist in my home; colds, headaches, gastritis, kidney trouble, rheumatism, sprains, cuts, burns, and other ills have been overcome. My husband was healed in two days' treatment in Christian Science of a rupture that had been pronounced incurable by two physicians unless an operation was performed.
When error seems to dim my clear sense of Truth's omnipotence I know that by holding constantly to divine Principle, God, who is Life, Truth, and Love, I shall rise above it. I know that God is my true supply; that His love enriches me, His truth protects me, and the one Mind sustains me. I am daily striving to be worthy to be known as a Christian Scientist.— Caldwell, Idaho.
