Christian Science has been all to us for the last five years and a half. It found me dissatisfied with the church of which I was a member, yet too ignorantly prejudiced to accept this healing truth at once. One of my wife's relatives had a remarkably quick physical healing through Christian Science treatment, yet I still doubted; but shortly afterwards, to please my wife, I reluctantly called with her upon the practitioner. During the evening's conversation the barriers of arrogance and prejudice were broken down, and since then Christian Science has been our sole aid in time of trouble. I soon found it to be all that was claimed for it, and within a short time was entirely healed of a chronic stomach disorder of many years' standing, for which many reputable physicians had treated me. Many times I had been told that an operation was necessary, and medicine had been taken every night for almost ten years, until I was using more than double the dose prescribed. Several years before my healing I was rejected by a military organization on account of cardiac trouble, but about two years ago I passed a rigid physical examination, given by a physician for a large insurance company.
Our son, now four years and a half old, has never tasted medicine. The few ailments manifested have been promptly met and overcome through the help of a practitioner or through our own understanding of the truth. The physical healings experienced by me and mine have been many, and together with the great spiritual uplift a peace of mind has been established which I have never before experienced, having always been of a worrisome, nervous temperament, with its attending melancholy periods. I am very grateful to Christian Science that it has brought me out of business reverses and financial difficulties met with during the last six years. I reached "man's extremity" in every sense of the word, until resistance to evil seemed to be at the breaking point; but strength was given sufficient to carry the burden, and now at daybreak I can see it as a nightmare, an experience which was seemingly necessary to awaken me from a morbid mentality, the dream of life and substance in matter. During these trials I have had reason to be grateful for our authorized literature and the lectures. When all has seemed darkest, our Leader's encouraging words have ever resounded. "Where the spirit of God is, and there is no place where God is not, evil becomes nothing,— the opposite of the something of Spirit" (Science and Health, p. 480). Such words, when fully grasped, give us that peace "which passeth all understanding," removes fear, false responsibility, and care, and eliminates mortal sense.
Experience has taught me that, contrary to the belief of many, Christian Science is not intricate. The language of Truth is unadorned and always simple, but we must have faith, consecration, perseverance. Experience has also taught me that a child reared in Christian Science can and does often bring home the truth to us,—its language is necessarily simple. I am indeed grateful to Mrs. Eddy for giving her discovery to the world.— Casper, Wyo.
