For some months it has occurred to me that I should send in a testimony giving at least a slight expression of gratitude for benefits received from the study and application of Christian Science. As a beginner in this study I feel deeply grateful for the fruits realized. When the war broke out I wondered many times why I happened to live in such a trying time. A few months later I learned my first lesson in Christian Science, and to-day I am one of the thousands who are truly thankful for living in the age when the truth preached and practiced by Jesus has been again revealed. Christian Science is the greatest and most beautiful thing that ever came into my life. The fact that it is a demonstrable religion, ever operative as omnipotent, divine law, appeals to me as worthy of our entire support.
The healing that has probably meant most to me was the overcoming of the fear of death. I can now understand in a degree what the Bible means in the verse, "Jesus wept." To my present understanding, he was not weeping because Lazarus was dead, but because his friends did not understand eternal Life.
There have been many healings in our family of four. The first was that of bowel trouble in an aggravated form. This opened my eyes, and I began reading and studying in earnest to discover what had caused the healing. To me Christian Science was a most beautiful new-old religion which I was ready to accept because I was hungering and thirsting for a religion that was practiced seven days in the week. The healing which follows understanding was a marvel to me then, but is now quite natural, being one of the "signs following" referred to in Mark. It is, however, of minor importance compared with the spiritual uplift gained from the study of the Bible in its spiritual import. I am realizing more each day that man, God's idea, reflects only what God Himself is, and it is as impossible to change the reflection as it is to change the source of the reflection.
