"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," is the promise of Christian Science to all mankind. I can give grateful testimony to the rich fulfillment of this promise in my own experience. Very early in my study of Christian Science I was healed of bronchitis, which had previously required my remaining in bed for several weeks each winter. A few years later, while in high school, I was almost instantaneously healed of measles through the reading of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. More recently, a physical manifestation of infection disappeared when its seeming cause was recognized to be thoughts of resentment, bitterness, and discouragement which I had allowed to poison my mental outlook. The healing of these wrong thoughts resulted in the healing of the infected finger, without the usual development which mortal mind outlines for such cases.
I have witnessed and experienced many other physical healings in Christian Science, and for nineteen years have daily benefited by the study and practice of its teachings. It has proved to me that God is Love, and that we are never desolate when we look to this comforting, protecting, guiding Love. I am humbly grateful for the clear sense and firm conviction of eternal Life that was revealed to me when my husband passed on.
One of the most beautiful qualities of Life which Christian Science has taught me is joy. Man's birthright is not only demonstration of Truth, but joy in its demonstration. An article in The Christian Science Monitor once described the joyous habits of birds, citing the fact that frequently birds startled in the night will sing as they do in daylight. This sentence about the sedge warbler held a lesson for which I have been continuously grateful: "He sleeps on the edge of song, and turns even a disturbance into praise." To turn the seeming disturbance of mortal mind into praise to God is a joyous privilege.
