During the eight years that I have been interested in Christian Science I have been the recipient of many, many blessings. Colds, burns, a rash, trouble with my teeth, and headaches have been destroyed by Truth. The understanding of God and man, as taught in Christian Science, has solved problems that have presented themselves in school work, and has shown me that instead of "going out into the world to seek one's fortune" one must go out of the world (material sense) to do so. The wonderfully helpful and comforting thing about Christian Science is that it proves to us that God is omnipresent, and that He is all-powerful and all-wise, and therefore no matter where we may seem to be or what our problem may seem to be, our tender, never failing Father-Mother is ready and able to lead us gently to the understanding that with Him, and the real man, there are no problems.
More than the physical healings, I value the purification that has taken place in my consciousness. Many mortal beliefs, such as self-pity, self-condemnation, worry, and other forms of selfishness, have been uncovered as nothing trying to mesmerize me into believing them to be something. Although mortal mind makes mistakes, and struggles hard to defraud one, still how comforting and inspiring it is to know that no seemingly unpleasant experience of any sort has one bit of reality, or is in any way connected with God and His perfect, spiritual idea, man.
Since learning to recognize and prove the unreality of error when it tries to present itself to my thought, I am beginning to understand what is meant by the command, "Love thy neighbour as thyself." My neighbor reflects God just as much as I do, and if error is not real, or a part of me, then it is not real or a part of my neighbor, who is every idea of God. And so Christian Science teaches one to go on from glory to glory up the steep and rugged path which all may, and must, climb to the realization that no true idea is limited in any way and that, in reality, all are working together for good, God.
