In grateful recognition of the physical, moral, and spiritual regeneration brought into my life through a knowledge of Christian Science, and with the hope that, my experience may bring encouragement to some other seeker, I desire to give this testimony through the columns of our periodicals. The earnest study and application of the Principle of Christian Science, unfolding each day new and clearer views of God and His creation, have brought to me convincing evidence that Christian Science is the truth practiced by Christ Jesus, and that the healing works he accomplished were not for his time only, but for all time.
For years previous to taking up the study of Christian Science I was vainly attempting to worship God according to prevailing creeds and man–made doctrines; but being unable to reconcile the inconsistent theories commonly imputed to God with the Scriptural representation that "God is love," like many others I failed to find in religion anything that satisfied. The first comforting assurance which Christian Science gave me came with the understanding that God is Principle, Love, Life, ever present good, infinite, supreme, and with the recognition of man as created in His image and likeness. The transforming power of this correct conception of God has indeed caused the arid desert, desolate and barren with the fallacies of false beliefs and the bewildering sense of man's life as separate from God, to be supplanted by a fruitful land, blossoming with the rose of hope, bright with the sunshine of joy, verdant with green pastures typical of the peace that passeth understanding.
As a very young child I instinctively cried out to God when the thorns of human sense pierced deeply; but these prayers were not answered, because I did not know how to pray aright. This earnest desire must have led me eventually, however, as the star led the shepherds of old, to where the young child lay; for in later years, when there remained only the dead ashes of hope, divine Love sent me into the home of a Christian Scientist. From that hour began the dawn of a new day. Mortal sense, slow to yield its assumed prestige, encountered many a struggle, but through endeavor, seeming defeat, and final triumph, the gleam of light, for a long time imperceptible, slowly but surely penetrated the darkness of materiality.
