I am very grateful for Christian Science, as it came to me when I was in great trouble and seemed to have no human friend to turn to. It seemed indeed the supreme test, for I must either love those who had despitefully used me and had said all manner of evil against me falsely, and receive more good, or cherish resentment and lose all the good I had gained. During this time, when evil in the name of good was trying so hard to tempt me, I was guided to Christian Science, which gave me new hope, and the spiritual uplift that leads to peace, harmony, and a better understanding of God and man. I have been cured of deafness, severe headaches, nervousness, and other ills, and glasses have been laid aside. For all this I am sincerely thankful, but more so for the spiritual uplift which comes from the earnest study of Science and Health and the application of its teachings.
To understand even in a small degree that "life and being are of God" (Science and Health, p. 103) is an ever present help, for no matter where we are, or what the circumstances may be, we always have our remedy at hand. Christian Science makes the Bible so clear and so helpful. Recently I was very much depressed over a problem that my most earnest efforts failed to work out. With a prayer for light and guidance I took up the Bible, which opened at the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah, and after reading this all sense of depression left me, as I realized that I must look away from things material and lift my thoughts to things spiritual.
Christian Science has meant more than words can express in rearing my children. They attend Sunday school and are learning all the time to demonstrate the truth for themselves. Several years ago I passed through an experience which proved beyond all possible doubt the absolute protection of divine Love. Our little daughter, then three years and a half of age, one Sunday wandered from our ranch in western Texas, which was then our home. Search was begun about twenty minutes after she disappeared, but nothing could be found to give us an idea of which way she had gone. Help was summoned as rapidly as possible in that sparsely settled country, and everything was done that could be done to find the child, but three days and three nights passed and in the meantime a terrible rainstorm came. There was a little place in the sky where the clouds seemed to part and it was perfectly clear. Every one who saw it said that right under that was where the child would be found; and it proved true, for in a little space about one fourth of a mile wide and just about that long, it did not rain at all and the child was found safe and sound. Although she had been without food for three days and nights, she was able to walk and was normal in every way. No human aid protected her from the wild cattle and other wild animals, nor sustained her with food; no human hand stayed the rain which was so heavy and cold that men who were out in it became very chilled. God, divine Love, was her only protection. At the time I seemed to be a stranger in a strange land, for I knew no other Christian Scientist within hundreds of miles.
