I wish to express my gratitude for the benefits I have realized through the understanding of Christian Science. It is many years since I began reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, having purchased a copy after hearing Christian Science and Mrs. Eddy's life work criticized and discussed at great length by those who failed to understand the great import of it all. The great amount of time and effort spent in discussing this new and not understood religion by these people led me to think that Mrs. Eddy, whether right or wrong, was at least a wonderful woman to have occasioned so much comment. It was in that mental attitude that I spent almost my last cent for a copy of Science and Health, and as I recount my blessings to-day, not one seems greater to me than the ability to get hold of that book at that time. I have never given up the study of it and I never shall.
I have had many demonstrations over physical discords, as well as over other discords common to human kind, and every time I have applied the truth as taught by Mrs. Eddy, my problem has been met. One of the greatest demonstrations I have had over physical discords was that over the results of an accident. I was at one time the victim of a most serious automobile accident, and but for the protection of divine Love as taught and demonstrated in Christian Science I would have been permanently disabled if not fatally injured. At the time of this experience, the friends with whom I boarded called in a surgeon, who was extremely kind, and considerate of my religion and of the practitioner in her work for me. When I had regained consciousness and he had made his first examination to ascertain if I had any fractured bones. I told him I did not care for medical treatment, but intended to have a Christian Science practitioner take cart' of my needs. He smiled at my decision and told me that was all right. The people with whom I lived were not Christian Scientists, and thought they were opposed to it, and so told the doctor to call the next morning. The practitioner worked for me that night and while I did not sleep any, I did rest. I was unable to walk or to stand for some time, and my family, who were not Christian Scientists, feared that I was being neglected in depending upon Christian Science, which they considered very weak aid in circumstances of that kind, and I was forced to have four other physicians in consultation and to undergo an X-ray examination in order to prove that I was not seriously injured, but amid it all, through the good work of a kind practitioner and what little understanding I myself had of the truth as taught by Mrs. Eddy, I went calmly and hopefully on, and there was never a moment when I doubted that I would be well and perfect again. I was away from my work for seven weeks as a result of the experience, but when I returned I was in perfect health. I had never looked better physically, and had never felt better, and from that day on my health was better than it had ever been before.
I am grateful for that experience, for it left no permanent injury, but it did leave a permanent sense of gratitude for the protection I had had and for the growth I received as a result of the work done. I have had many other healings, for all of which I am grateful, but for a degree of understanding of Life I am more grateful than for the mere physical healing, which after all is the smallest part of Christian Science work, just one of the signs following the great revolutionizing of one's thinking—of one's everyday life. I am truly grateful for the literature. It is one of my greatest blessings, and the fact that it enables me to help many people get a gleam of Truth who have not yet realized that Truth really does exist, is something for which I cannot find words to express the gratitude I feel. I am indeed most grateful for Christian Science.— Memphis, Tennessee.
