It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I tell briefly of my coming into Christian Science. From 1910 until February, 1913, I was in the East, in Japan, China, and the Philippine Islands. As a token of love from my wife I had presented to me as a birthday present, in August, 1910, a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. During the following year I read this book at different times until I had read practically all of it, and began to think that I was an authority on it, in a small way. The fallacy of this thought was not unfolded to my spiritual consciousness until three years later, after my return to the United States and my subsequent arrival in Boston, where I learned how utterly mistaken I had been in my interpretation of its teachings.
While in the Philippine Islands I was cured of the drink habit, and the tobacco habit of twenty-five years' standing left me two years after my return to the United States. The cure of the drink habit was one of the most wonderful results of a wife's untiring devotion. While in Hong Kong, China, my wife secured the services of a Christian Science practitioner, and again when we arrived in Manila. While I gave no credit to Christian Science for my healing, this devoted companion had seen and known the power of Truth.
It gives me joy and unspeakable happiness to state that my healing has been permanent, for what God does nothing can undo, and when divine Love heals and lifts one from a seeming world of sin, the regeneration can be no other than permanent. When the light of spiritual understanding began to dawn upon my consciousness I realized that I had been trying to master this Science from an intellectual viewpoint. It was then that with thankfulness to God for His bounteous love, and with gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for her clear exposition of divine Love, I knew why I had been healed, and I now give credit where it justly belongs. In closing I would like to express my gratitude to all those who have helped me along the road.—
