When Christian Science first came to me I was under a great mental strain. I could not, it seemed, see a ray of light. I would take my Bible and try to seek consolation, but as I had been taught in the old denominational religion that these chastisements were sent to us from God as punishment for our shortcomings I tried to accept it all with patience. It seemed there must be some way for comfort in my trouble, and the way came so beautifully through meeting a lady who was my neighbor and a Christian Scientist. I said to her one day, "You always seem so happy; I wish I could be happy with you." She talked of God as a God of love and before I left her the first ray of sunshine seemed to penetrate where all had seemed darkness before. She let me take her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I opened the book and commenced to read the chapter on "Prayer" and when I came to the three words, "God is Love," what an illuminated sense of the truth opened up to me. I knew I had found the truth and that God does not afflict His children, but is an ever present help and always ready to free us from the false beliefs and fears that hold us in bondage. Then healing came to me of sick headaches and bronchial trouble.
Christian Science was welcomed into my home, for different ones of the family found it to be just what we needed to make us happy and harmonious. My sister had been on the operating table twice without any relief from suffering. She was to have had the third operation but when I went to her with the healing message of divine Love, she decided to try Christian Science. She was healed, and to-day rejoices with me and is grateful to God and to Mrs. Eddy for the textbook, the key which has unlocked for us the understanding of the Bible and has proved to us to-day that the Christ is, as Mrs. Eddy states on page 583 of Science and Health, "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error." I am also grateful for all of Mrs. Eddy's writings, for the periodicals, and for the privilege of sending them to others. — Chicago, Ill.
