I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. For many years after my marriage I tried to understand God and the Bible. I was a member of a church and for a while gained comfort from my membership therein, but as I grew older and had to meet daily difficulties, my trust in its teachings began to leave me. At last I gave up going to church and reading the Bible. Then a great distrust of my own sex came to me and I went through much mental discord.
Just about this time a friend told me of Christian Science and lent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. I knew at once it was what I had been searching and longing for so many years. The mental discord, distrust, jealousy, and hate just seemed to slip away, and my whole life was changed. I realized that the God I used to believe in was not really God at all, and that what really belonged to me could never be lost. This realization of the truth came to me in 1915. Since then I have had many demonstrations of God's loving care and the power of His law. My son, then fifteen years old, was healed of heart trouble in one treatment. In 1917 I suddenly developed a severe headache and all my limbs ached, especially my wrists and ankles. Two or three days later a rash broke out all over the body, but I tried to see the unreality of it and kept on thanking God that it was not true. That afternoon when my husband and I started to play tennis with some friends who had come to tea I could hardly lift my racquet, the pain in my wrist was so acute, but I kept on holding to the truth and before the first set was finished all sense of pain and fatigue had gone, and I was well!
I have found Christian Science of great help in every problem that comes to me, if I am honest in its application. Sometimes my happiness becomes so great that I feel I must tell every one I see about this wonderful law of God, but I have learned that it is wiser just to try to live this Science, and only to speak when some one really needs help. I came into Christian Science, not for physical healing, but for spiritual help, and I can never be grateful enough for having received this. Words fail to express my love to God and my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy.— Nilgiris, India.
