Love met my need, my hunger for Truth, many years ago, when I saw the truth about man. I was healed of a serious trouble for which I had been operated upon three times and had "suffered many things of many physicians." I had to learn that health could not be gained through drugs nor found at any resort, and that fear could not be cut out with a surgeon's knife. I was reared in a home where the Bible was loved, and from early childhood I studied and loved this book. I joined the church of my mother's faith, and no words could express my dismay and despair when I found I was professing to believe something which could not be true,—the generally accepted "plan of salvation," the vicarious atonement of the human Jesus. I left the church and sought the truth in literature, studying in a large university. My thought was often uplifted as I read words of inspiration by great men, but I found the trail of the serpent, the belief of life in matter, over them all.
Words can never express the joy and gratitude that flooded my thought when "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was put into my hands and I found that the most sacred of earthly things to me, the Bible, was true, and true in a way of which my human sense had never dreamed. This joy and gratitude is increasing each day as unfoldment takes place and I understand what God is and what has been revealed to us through Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy. — Washington, District of Columbia.
