In humility and with deep gratitude I express thanks for the gift of Christian Science to me. The many years of intellectual study and preparation for life's work count as nothing in comparison to the gleam of understanding of real Life as revealed in Christian Science. From the first moment when it was mentioned to me and I was asked as a school chaperone to escort a pupil to a Christian Science service, I was antagonistic. Although this animosity lessened as years went on and I became tolerant, it was never really healed until I had taken up the study of Christian Science in earnest. I had heard lectures, had talked with a practitioner, but had not the faintest concept of what Christian Science taught until one day when in need of healing I heard these words spoken by a friend: "God made man in His image and likeness. God cannot be sick or have a cold, so how can His image and likeness have a cold?" These words started me studying the Bible and I read all that evening, and the next day I went to a Carnegie library for the book I had heard about in the lectures, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This book I kept a month, and then purchased a copy of my own.
Healings through Christian Science treatment have been many: whooping cough, headaches, indigestion, colds, catarrh, and the instantaneous healing of grippe are among those for which I am sincerely thankful. This last-mentioned healing of grippe made the deepest impression. It lifted me to spiritual heights of thought through the understanding of God as Spirit, as I declared my freedom through the verse from Romans, "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." The recollection of this healing has been my guide and stay when discords have seemed ineradicable.
I am thankful for class instruction, for the privilege of working in the Sunday school, and for the many proofs of constant supply which I have had since coming into the light of Christian Science.— Montclair, New Jersey.
