Christian Science is the greatest blessing that has come into my life. I took up the study of it thirteen years ago although I had been interested in it for some time before, but in rather a criticizing, bitter way, especially toward Mrs. Eddy, whom I thought Christian Scientists made a sort of god of. When I started to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I did so because I began to see that I had no right to judge it and argue about it without having even read the book. I started to read in a very critical, faultfinding mood, but I was determined to find out what it was that appealed to people so much, so I read it through twelve times and each time a little more light seemed to come, until at last I began to see it was the truth taught in the Bible, and immediately threw away all the medicines with which I was always dosing my two children, and since then, thirteen years ago. I have had no medicine in the home.
I have been helped in countless ways by Christian Science; measles, chicken pox, mumps, sprained ankles, a poisoned finger, and influenza have all been quickly overcome. The question of supply has not been an easy one at times, but with the earnest hope of helping others who have seemingly the same difficulty to overcome, I should like to tell of a demonstration of supply for which I am very grateful and which has been a great help to me. One of my daughters was married and went out to the East to live, and after some months she and her husband invited my other daughter and me to go out and pay them a visit. This seemed quite an impossibility, owing to the great expense of such a journey and also the difficulty of obtaining passage; still I felt if it was right to go the way would open up, and I turned to divine Love for guidance and applied for passages through shipping agents advertising in The Christian Science Monitor. Very soon they offered me two berths which they said I would have to take at once, owing to the great demand. In the meantime I had an offer to let my house for seven months, the whole rent to be paid in advance, which is an unheard-of thing as a rule. This enabled me to meet all the expenses for the voyage. A few days after I had booked my passages the agents wrote and told me the fares had gone up nearly double but it would not affect me as my passage had been taken. The voyage out, although in what was called the worst time of the year, owing to the monsoons, was harmonious in spite of the many predictions as to what we should get.
The kindness which was shown us on board ship and the help we had from different friends at the various ports at which we stopped was, I know, also due to the care of our loving Father-Mother God. All these things I am most truly grateful for and it is my earnest prayer that I may be more worthy of the name Christian Scientist. I am most grateful to Mrs. Eddy for revealing this saving truth to the world.— Camberley, Surrey, England.
