It would be very ungrateful for me to wait any longer to give my testimony about the many blessings that have come to me and to my family through the knowledge of Christian Science. I did not turn to it for physical healing, but because what I heard of its teachings appealed to me. Though I did not read the Bible very much, not being able to understand it, as I do now, in its spiritual interpretation, yet I went to church regularly; but as I listened to the preaching about a God of wrath, sending sickness and death, I could not agree with it. When Christian Science came to me with its revelation of God as divine Principle, Life, Truth, and Love, I knew at once it was what I had been longing for. I bought a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and the Bible and the textbook have since been daily read in our home.
We have had many beautiful healings, some with the loving help of a practitioner and some through our own understanding of the truth. I have been healed of influenza and severe backache, and my husband of rheumatism. My two boys also have had many proofs that God is an ever present help. We live on a farm and find the scientific understanding of God and the universe a great help in cases of sickness among the animals.
Indeed, Christian Science is an everyday blessing in our home. Last winter my eleven-year-old boy on coming back from school one day went into one of the bedrooms to see if the fire was still burning. As it was quite dark he lighted a match, and after opening the top of the stove, dropped the match therein. An explosion followed, nobody knows how, and the flame touched his face. When he came downstairs his face, eyebrows, and eyelashes were burned and he was suffering from the pain. Being a student of Christian Science, however, he was not frightened. We at once turned to the Lord's Prayer and the "scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468), which we repeated twice, and then I gave him the Lesson-Sermon to study. After half an hour the pain was gone and he went happily outside to play in the snow.
