For the past fifteen years the truth as revealed to us in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has been such a guide and sustaining power to me that I would be found wanting did I not give expression through our periodicals to the gratitude I feel for this divine influence. While attending the public schools, and shortly after uniting with an orthodox church, I witnessed the healing of an intimate friend through Christian Science treatment ; and out of curiosity I subsequently began reading the Christian Science Sentinel, and soon afterwards the textbook.
Well do I remember the lines which first impressed me with the simplicity of this Science. They are to be found on page 3 of Science and Health: "Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem?" The utter futility of such a method seemed to dawn upon my thought as analogous to pleading with a humanly circumscribed God for relief from human problems; and thus was destroyed my former concept of a corporeal Deity.
As time went on my continued study and application of the new understanding gained of God as divine Principle brought relief from numerous physical ailments, among which were malaria, hay fever in its worst form, facial neuralgia, a painful condition of a tooth which resulted in the locking of my jaws (entirely healed within ten days), together with other ailments equally annoying. But the benefit I hold most dear is the mental change which inevitably takes place when Truth is accepted.
