I wish to express through the pages of the Journal my thanksgiving to God and my gratitude to Christ Jesus and to our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for all the blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. All the pages of many Journals could not contain them, and like the psalmist I can truly say, "If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered," for I have been lifted also "out of an horrible pit" and I have found a God who "forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases," and who has indeed crowned me "with loving-kindness and tender mercies." Christian Science found me a physical wreck and restored me to robust health; it has healed me of smoking, although I was a most inveterate smoker. Desire for wine and beer has also gone, as well as the coffee and tea drinking habit. Corns that pestered and pained me for half a century have totally disappeared, and my feet are as free from them as those of a child.
Twice during the last two years I have been on the very edge of the death valley, from which no human will could have saved me. Many, young and old all around me were succumbing during an epidemic, but through the loving and effectual work of a practitioner Christian Science, the "word of God," delivered me. "He sent his word, and healed them." I loved to read, fiction and often very nauseous fiction; in its place has come a great love for the Bible, and this is the greatest healing of all. There is still much to be overcome, but depression and discouragement are not found in Christian Science. We have always two infallible cures for any thought of such: Paul's words. "Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not," and our Leader's message of hope and encouragement, found on page 22 of Science and Health, "Love is not hasty to deliver us from temptation, for Love means that we shall be tried and purified."— London, England.
