I wish to take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude for Christian Science and for all it has done for me. Because I have grown up in the knowledge of this wonderful truth since I was about ten years old, I am sometimes tempted to think I have nothing to give a testimony about, because I have experienced no big healing. But Christian Science has meant everything to me: it has been my only help through schooldays, through my training as an infants' nurse, and in my work since then. Indeed, words cannot express my gratitude for the ever present help I have always with me for my daily needs.
I should like to tell of a healing that occurred about six years ago. I had always been afraid of a visit to the dentist. I never would go alone, and the help of a practitioner seemed necessary on each occasion. But one day I was unexpectedly forced to go by myself, and I realized that it was time for me to work out my own problem. Before I reached the dentist all fear had left me in the realization that as God's child I had "dominion over all." The dentist himself noted the change, exclaiming at once, "Why, you are not afraid to-day!" A few months later I was able to prove that this beautiful healing was indeed permanent. I was away from home, and had to visit a strange dentist for a very difficult extraction; but I felt no fear, and suffred no pain.
I am deeply grateful for the privilege of membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for our literature, and for the consecrated work of all those members of The Christian Science Publishing Society who make it possible for us to receive our periodicals with such faithful regularity. But above all, I am grateful to that wonderful woman, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, who made it possible for us to receive this great truth in this age.— White Plains, New York
