For some time I have had a desire to express my gratitude for the wonderful help I received physically and mentally from a two months' visit to The Christian Science Benevolent Association sanatorium at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, about five years ago. I was pronounced by a medical practitioner of Chicago as permanently disabled and incurable, with what he diagnosed as locomotor ataxia. So, having had a desire for some time to visit the Christian Science sanatorium, I at once consulted a practitioner, and after some correspondence I was on my way to the sanatorium, arriving there, however, in a deplorable condition, hardly able to walk even with the assistance of a cane.
From the very first day I could feel a change taking place, and in the course of a week I was able to walk up and down stairs; in fact I was so delighted with the improvement in my physical condition that I ignored the elevators entirely. I left the sanatorium at the expiration of two months, having gained forty-five pounds in weight, and I could walk downtown and back, a distance of about four miles, without any fatigue whatever. This condition continues to be maintained.
I am indeed grateful for the privilege of this visit to the sanatorium where divine Love is reflected so beautifully. As Mrs. Eddy states on page 494 of the Christian Science textbook, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." It is therefore this divine Love that is manifested through steadfast spiritual right thinking, which enables the workers to know that man reflects or expresses God. It is also through this steadfast, continuous right thinking that limitations are done away with and health and freedom are demonstrated.
