When Christian Science came to our home I was young enough to attend the Sunday school; and I shall always be grateful for this, as I feel sure the lessons learned there have helped me, perhaps oftener than I know, to stand firm during trials. Soon after coming into Christian Science I was healed in one night of a very bad sore throat. For some years I had suffered every winter from this throat trouble, and under medical treatment had been kept away from school for about a fortnight on each occasion. Christian Science, however, completely destroyed the fear of it, and the healing has been permanent. I have also been healed of influenza, colds, eczema, and a badly sprained ankle; and I rejoice, too, in the gradual but certain overcoming of faults of character.
Two or three years ago I allowed the sense of overwork and strain to enter my thought to such an extent that extreme physical weariness resulted, and at times I scarcely knew how to get through the day. With the loving help of a practitioner I was completely healed of this very discordant condition, and though the healing spread over several months, I was most wonderfully sustained, and was enabled to do all that I had to do. I know that without Christian Science it would have been quite impossible for me to go on with my work, and I feel intensely grateful for the lessons learned during that experience. The spiritual illumination was so glorious that my thought was lifted above the material sense of self; and when I became willing to let God's will be done, the result was not only a physical healing, but an opportunity for wider and happier activity, and the healing of a sense of resentment and discontent which had troubled me since childhood. At another time, when there seemed to be only failure and disappointment, the truth that "all things work together for good to them that love God" was proved in such a tender way that the experience will always remain in my memory as a triumph, though mortal mind would have liked to call it a defeat. In times of difficulty I have often been comforted by these words from Micah: "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise."
I am deeply grateful for the experiences that have compelled me to find out more about God, and for the courage and strength one gains in the hour of trial. I have learned that one can always find something to rejoice about, and as one holds on to the thought of gratitude even the darkest hour grows brighter.— Edinburgh, Scotland.
