I feel the time has come for me to tell a little of what Christian Science has done for me and been to me in the twenty-four years it has been my comfort, healer, and guide, freeing me greatly from the bondage of fear by the understanding of the truth of being and the allness of God, good.
My mother had long been an invalid and great sufferer, and when given up by both schools of physicians was led to attend a Christian Science lecture. The next day she bought "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and read it through. Then I also took it and read it through, feeling, as did my mother, that a great truth and understanding, hitherto unknown, had come to us; and from that time to this I have never depended on materia medica, and have been relieved from much of old theology that was obscure and worthless. In a few years my mother was completely healed of her trouble; and by the aid of Christian Science practitioners I have been healed of typhoid fever, appendicitis, and inflammatory rheumatism. Frequently recurring headaches are now unknown and forgotten; and many troubles that never had a chance to manifest themselves seriously were met and destroyed by knowing the truth and thus destroying the error.
Shortly after coming into Science I went to live in a community where tradition was worshiped above everything else. Anything new, advanced, or progressive was not given much thought; and I, being young in Science, found myself shut away from much I deemed sacred and worth while. In those years The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel did very much to keep the truth ever before me, and to keep me in touch with its unfoldment. My greatest joy was in using my knowledge in helping to bring out the good, harmonious, and beautiful in everything I entered into in the eighteen years I lived there,—in my gardens, in civic and club work, and in helping to make a city beautiful, in all of which was manifested wonderful success.
Three years ago I came to Columbia to live, and found a few brave women and men using their understanding of Truth to organize a church in this city; and in that time I have seen it grow from a society to a church organization owning its own property and little church edifice in a fine part of the city. Christian Science has been the means of helping me to meet a problem of life that without the aid of Science would have been most disastrous; for all of which I am most grateful.
It is my desire to help in every way that comes to me to spread the great spiritual truth which Jesus taught, and which, through human belief, became obscured. It was revealed and brought to light the second time in all its purity and completeness by Mary Baker Eddy, and given to us in her work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."— Columbia, S. C.
