In an article written by a correspondent in France something less than two years ago, was the statement that whereas for four weary years Lille had been a city of bitter bondage, she has now become, through the advance of the Allied Forces, "a city of splendid thanksgiving." At once I saw that that is what the columns of testimony in the Christian Science Sentinel and Journal are,—namely, "a city of splendid thanksgiving." Then came the question, Where is your brick in this glorious structure?
There is neither time nor space to even enumerate the many blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, both through the faithful efforts of others, when my own faith seemed too weak or my understanding too slight, and from individual study of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. My first healing of physical ills through Christian Science came over seven years ago. In one treatment I was healed of chronic recurring hemorrhages, this condition being of several years' standing, and caused, so the physicians said, by extreme nervous depletion. Several physicians frankly told me that they could not diagnose the case and that whatever they did was in the nature of an experiment. This healing has been permanent, and with it many attendant features gradually disappeared, including insomnia, irregular and painful heart action, dropsical conditions, neuralgia, tenderness of spine, and an abnormal sensitiveness to sound. Since that time I have been healed of several acute attacks of sickness, among which were toothache, ptomaine poisoning, sore throat, eyestrain, and Spanish influenza; besides which I have dim memories of other ills overcome, but now almost forgotten; for Christian Science healing brings the consciousness of life more abundant, wherein is not even a recollection of anything less. Through the study of Christian Science literature I am gaining a clearer view of moral questions, how to discern what and why they are.
Christian Science came to me at a time when human thought says, "You have already reached the age when you are too old to learn new ways, or to fit yourself for remunerative work." This I have proved to be false; for while once the word "business" conjured up visions of difficulties too deep, too complicated for a woman to understand, I have moved on from one kind of employment to another, as Love opened the way, until for more than two years I have had my own business office, for I used my spare time and times of enforced idleness, to prepare for professional work. Christian Science lifted the burden of an abiding sense of sorrow. It taught me how to rejoice that my three sons, all my family, were in military service helping to prepare the way for liberty.
