I am grateful for the experience which brought me into Christian Science—an instantaneous healing of grief and a sense of separation when my mother passed on. This healing was brought about through just a few remarks made about Christian Science by a comforting friend. I owe endless gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for all her writings, and to the editors of and contributors to the Christian Science periodicals, comforting, encouraging, and sustaining us in our experiences. I am particularly grateful for the healing of unwillingness to read The Christian Science Monitor in public. This healing, however, did not come until I not only became a subscriber to, but a daily reader and lover of, the Monitor. This paper being full of wholesome, constructive, and international news, and giving to its readers enlightenment, why should not the public know about it?
Some years ago I had the privilege of spending a few weeks for rest and study at The Christian Science Benevolent Association sanatorium, at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and I am grateful for one of the rules which was pointed out the first day of my arrival, that of loving God supremely and not deifying personality, as it is God who is the healer.
Each year makes me more grateful for the privilege of class instruction. The yearly meetings of the Associations furnish new hope, strength, and courage.
