My gratitude for Christian Science is unceasing, for without it I should not be here to-day. In 1901 I was a hopeless and helpless invalid. I had been continually under the care of some of the best doctors in Boston, Massachusetts, for five years. At a time when physicians held no hope for me, Christian Science was suggested to my mother, who turned to it whole-heartedly and asked for help from a practitioner. The disease that was holding me in bondage was known as malnutrition. My healing was not instantaneous, but gradual and complete. Since that time Christian Science has been my only physician, and has met my every need.
I am exceedingly grateful for the lasting benefit I received from the teaching in a Christian Science Sunday School. Not until 1910 did I earnestly take up the study of this Science of Christ, Truth, when my dear father passed on. Then I turned to it with all my heart, and proved, as so many have, that "man's extremity is God's opportunity."
At rather an early age I was greatly privileged by having class instruction, which taught me how to apply the truth of being, and which changed the many false concepts I had of life to true concepts of the spiritual facts of existence. The understanding I gained during class has been a daily guide and protection, for which I am profoundly grateful.
When our little girl came to us the spiritual understanding of the one creator and His perfect creation, as explained in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, in the chapter entitled "Genesis," was a great help to me.
The many suggestions of the "talking, lying serpent," as Mrs. Eddy so aptly calls evil in Science and Health (p. 529), I have not always denied when first presented to me, but each time the "still small voice" of Truth has awakened me to see the utter futility of any way apart from God's way, and the infinite dominion and progress that is ours if we but trustingly and understandingly pray, "Not my will, but thine, be done."
"To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 160). These words of our beloved Leader I am earnestly striving to live up to, and they give me cause for continuous rejoicing. My gratitude for Christian Science is beyond words, and I earnestly desire to live according to its teachings, not for my own sake, but for the glory of God and the sake of all mankind. — Brookline, Massachusetts
