Among the many ills of which I have been healed in Christian Science are chronic constipation of an unusually stubborn nature, colds, influenza, an infected thumb, a sprained ankle, and a sprained neck; also, hatred of what I was pleased to term "religious hypocrisy," a failing I attached especially to various Christian Scientists. I am now, and have been for several years, busily engaged in trying to overcome my own erroneous thoughts; an effort which I find much more profitable both to myself and to others. For these healings I am profoundly grateful, especially the last named. But that which proved the all-presence of God most clearly to my thought was the healing of a sense of grief over the passing on of my father and mother, nine months apart. One healing was instantaneous, the other required several treatments. These brought the realization that "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."
I am deeply grateful to the Christian Scientists who have kindly treated me when called upon for help. I am very grateful for the spiritual progress that I have made, and still more grateful that I can continue to progress. Words have not yet been coined wherewith to express my gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy; and yet I would try to do so by expressing my gratitude for that condensed statement of the truth, the "scientific statement of being," which she has given us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468) I am sincerely trying to prove my gratitude by striving diligently to love God with my whole heart and my neighbor as myself.— Yuba City, California.
