So many blessings have come to me through Christian Science that perhaps I have taken them too much as a matter of course. At present I am where I cannot tell of my gratitude at our Wednesday evening meetings, so am sending this testimony in the hope that through our periodicals I may help some one else.
Four years ago I was as forlorn and discouraged as I hope not many ever are. Alone in a large city, practically without friends or money, with poor health, and worst of all an object of self-pity, I was ready to believe there was no God, though for ten years I had been a member of an orthodox church. Through it all I had continued to pray to God for help, but conditions continued to get worse. Finally when in desperation I had begun to consider ending it all, Christian Science was brought to me by one who was at the time merely a chance acquaintance, and I knew I had at last found the God for whom I had been searching many years— that God "with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
The way has not been easy, but when I have given up self and submitted to that "good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God," I have found a peace and happiness I never had imagined could exist. Self-pity, false pride, a hasty, violent temper, and sensitiveness so acute that a word of criticism would move me to tears, have been to some extent overcome. The first physical healing was that of an injury to the spine, which kept me in constant pain. Doctors could give no relief and predicted an increase of discomfort with advancing years. I was healed of this within three months after I began the study of Science and Health, and without any special treatment. Many other discordant conditions have been overcome, and now I enjoy the great blessing, or rather my birthright, of perfect health.
