It is with great gratitude that I send this testimony regarding some of the many blessings which have come to me through the study of Christian Science. I became interested in this teaching about seven years ago; and three days after beginning the study of it I was healed of a trouble which had been going on for nearly four years, and for which there seemed to be no material remedy. There was much opposition at home, however; and this culminated, after some weeks, in my copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" being taken from me. I was forbidden to have anything more to do with Christian Science!
Although for the next four years fear prevented me from going to the Christian Science Reading Rooms or attending the services, I knew I must use the one talent I had; and, gradually, through turning for guidance to divine Mind and studying the Bible, I gained a clearer understanding of Truth. I had many healings, the chief of which was the overcoming of a violent temper. The lesser forms of this evil, manifested in impatience and irritability, have also, with the loving help of others, been gradually healed. Frequent severe bilious attacks, indigestion, distressing susceptibility to climatic conditions, and many lesser ills have likewise gone.
My freedom came when I was sent away from home at the end of four years. I did not want to leave, as I was very much afraid of going away alone; but finally I realized that I must put away self-will and fear, and leave all to God. At the same time, the realization came that our real home is in divine Mind, and so we can never be separated from it. On the voyage from England to India—a very happy one—I met a student of Christian Science, who lovingly lent me Science and Health and kept me supplied with literature for the next year; and during that year I proved, times without number, that Love is omnipresent and omnipotent. Physical ills, such as colds and dysentery, were healed, and I was able to live in what are considered most unhealthy districts without suffering from their supposedly inevitable effects, and to prove that God "is the health of my countenance." Later, when every material prop failed me, when I was left among strangers in a strange land, and afterwards when work which had met my need temporarily also came to an end and I had apparently no material means to depend on, I found that the more I trusted and relied on God the more I was surrounded by kindness and loving consideration. I learned that all my debts could be paid by Love, in proportion as I let fear and pride, self-justification, a false sense of independence, and human planning be replaced by patience and humility and trust in God.
