About seven years ago, my mental condition was such that confinement in an insane asylum was seriously considered by my family. A kind neighbor who called on me left two or three copies of The Christian Science Journal, which I read with much interest. After reading an article in one of the Journals, I said to my husband, "I think I will go to church," a place I had not been inside of for more than fifteen years. I decided I would attend a Christian Science church, and, acting on the thought, I reached the church but experienced a reluctance to enter. However, I went in and became so absorbed in the truth voiced from the desk that I was healed before the service was over. When I started to return home, I seemed to be walking on air, and the great load which had seemed to be bearing me down was gone. The time seemed long before I could reach home and tell my husband that I was free, free and happy after the long years of misery and discouragement. Words cannot convey my feeling of gratitude for having been brought to a knowledge of the truth.
After my healing I took up the study of Christian Science in earnest, and have had many proofs of the healing power of divine Love when the divine Principle is properly applied. One of my latest experiences was with an ingrowing toenail, which was very painful. I turned to our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and read and studied, but seemed not to be able to realize the truth for myself as the pain increased, so I called over the telephone for help, which was given with kind rebuking words. When I left the telephone, however, the pain increased so that it was unbearable, and suggestion said I had better have an incision made. This I decided to do, and again called the practitioner and told her what I thought of doing. The words came over the telephone, "What believest thou?" After talking to me for some time, the practitioner said, "Come and see me." This I thought impossible, as the pain was so great I was unable to put on my shoe. After I had hung up the receiver, I pondered the words, "What believest thou?" and in a few moments I found myself singing Mrs. Eddy's hymn (Poems, p. 14), "Shepherd, show me how to go;" and my Shepherd, divine Truth, surely did show me how to go, as all pain had left and I was able to put on my shoe in comfort and go to the home of the practitioner.
For this and many other wonderful healings, great and small, I am indeed very grateful. My desire is to live the teachings of the Christ Science and to gain more understanding by earnest study and practice. I am grateful that I have found that God is our Father-Mother and always "a very present help in trouble." I am grateful for all the writings of Mrs. Eddy and the literature published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, for I find in them my daily food.— Newark, New Jersey.
