Eleven years ago Christian Science healed me of sleeplessness and severe headaches, and transformed me from a discontented semi-invalid into a well, happy, and useful member of society. It seems to me that my life up to that time had been a continual search for happiness and a continual struggle against lack and ill health. At last, when the outlook seemed most desperate, I turned to Christian Science in the hope of finding—not happiness—courage to go forward. At that time I also began to realize how self-centered my life had been. I prayed that I might be of some service in the world. My prayer was like the cry of the younger son in the parable, "Make me as one of thy hired servants;" and like the prodigal when he turned his back on the "far country" where "no man gave unto him" and found in his father's house not only bread to satisfy his hunger, but a loving welcome. So to my humbly grateful sense came the touch of the Father's love in countless unlooked-for joys and pleasures, besides renewed health and opportunities for service.
During the last eleven years I have experienced and witnessed many beautiful physical healings in Christian Science, and I have learned that "with God all things are possible," though, as our Leader says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 359), "Our demonstration rises only as we rise in the scale of being."
My heart is filled with gratitude to our beloved Leader, whose purity of thought made it possible for her to perceive and to demonstrate the practical nature of the Master's teaching, and whose life of self-sacrifice enabled her to give her great discovery to the world, and to establish her church so securely that the revelation can never again be lost or obscured. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for the privilege of class instruction, and for the joy of being associated with those who are striving to glorify God in their lives, that His "way may be known upon earth," His "saving health among all nations."— London, England.
