I should like to relate some of my experiences since becoming interested in Christian Science nine years ago. At that time the subject appealed to me as a religion, but it was nearly two years before I was ready to ask for help to overcome physical inharmony. For several years I was most miserable on account of an organic trouble which physicians claimed could only be eliminated by a surgical operation, and it seemed to take that verdict to awaken me to the fact that there is the great Physician to turn to. I asked a practitioner for treatment and in one week felt that I was absolutely healed. Words cannot describe the joy and freedom I experienced, physically and mentally. I have never ceased to be grateful.
This healing convinced me that "the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword," as we are told in Scripture, and I began to study this new-old truth with an awakened consciousness. In a few months I was completely healed of weak eyes and able to leave off glasses, which it had been necessary to wear continually for five years. Headaches had been almost daily during that time, but that trouble Was overcome through my own study and endeavor to apply this new found knowledge of God. A great fear of taking cold has been overcome, and consequently I have experienced more freedom from throat trouble and other inharmonious conditions which before gave me a great deal of suffering. I am now a wife and mother, and with my understanding of Christian Science am able to express greater patience and love than could have been possible under the old way of thinking, for I know it is my birthright to manifest these qualities. Our boy is four years and a half old and has never had a drop of medicine or any material remedy. At the time of his birth I was beautifully sustained and protected through my own understanding and the help of a practitioner, and came through the experience without any abnormal conditions at the time or later.
I realize that we can best express gratitude for this Christ-teaching and to our dear Leader, who has given it to this age, by constantly and persistently striving to let that Mind be in us "which was also in Christ Jesus."— Saginaw, Mich.
