It is two years since Christian Science was first brought to my notice. The only home that I had ever known was broken up. My home life had never been a happy one, and I could not think of God but as unjust, cruel, intolerable; I could not worship, and I could not pray. I do not think any one can ever know what a state of mental darkness I was in when Truth came to me through the unexpected visit of a cousin, who until that time had been almost a stranger. Then were the arms of divine Love wrapped about me,and I was comforted, guided, and blessed as never before. A clearer understanding of God came to me, and the beautiful way of His showing was set before my feet.
Having had Christian Science help from my cousin during the following winter, I was enabled in the spring of 1921 to give up entirely the taking of a drug which I had used for eight years day and night, in ever increasing doses, to relieve terrible suffering in the head. A few weeks before the healing in Science, I tried to give up the drug through will-power; but this failed me, and I succumbed to worse suffering and had to take a bigger dose of the drug than ever. One morning, after taking up Science, I awoke and did not need the drug. I have never touched it since, and am at most times completely free from headache and pain; also, I am cured from attacks of influenza, which used to recur each year.
But it is much more than this that God has given to me. I am with those who know and walk with God. The unspeakable peace and blessing of such a home life can be known only by those who have experienced it after great tribulation. For freedom from much mental agony; for every lovely service that comes with the unlimited gift of Love to tired humanity; for every healing of unrest and fear; for every patient and ever ready care; for the brave and consecrated life of our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy; and for Christ Jesus, the "good shepherd," who went out to seek and to save that which was lost, I feel that my heart should be daily and hourly lifted up to God in gratitude. This is just a little of all that I could say, for I have no way to count these blessings. They are unlimited, and they are eternal; they are gifts not for one alone, but for all, "from the least even unto the greatest."— London, England.
