I Am profoundly grateful to God that I have found the truth which makes free, and especially happy for the understanding which is daily unfolding to me Jesus' words: "I can of mine own self do nothing," and, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."
Christian Science came into my life eleven years ago, but for only a few years have I been able to apply the truth aright. Although longing for God from earliest childhood, I led a hard and difficult life, always mentally and physically ill, even though trying to express the Christ, Truth. I soon recognized that the basis of all sickness is in wrong thinking; but I did not recognize that it was personal sense which was trying to overcome fear, responsibility, pain, weakness, sensitiveness, and thoughts of death; that it was this personal sense which was trying to find the God-idea in love towards my neighbor and myself; that trying to overcome false concepts, conditions, and mistakes in others and in myself was a wrong line of thought, inasmuch as I did not recognize that I was acknowledging something, was trying to improve something, that God never created.
I now see clearly that it was logically impossible personally to accomplish these overcomings, and often enough I broke down in a hard struggle. I had Christian Science treatment for a long time, and the practitioner endeavored to lead me nearer to God with compassionate love and patience. During this time, on one occasion, I was told that the best support I could give to Truth would be to try to do less myself; that I ought to leave my sincere seeking and yearning for God to Him, for the child of God could do nothing by himself, and that the Father had already done the work perfectly and was unfolding it continually; that the work I had to do was to know this.
