About twelve years ago I was laboring under what is known as a nervous breakdown. Receiving little help from the kindest medical attention, in a moment of despair, hungrily reaching out for help, I asked my physician what would aid my helpless, despondent condition. His reply was, "Faith in God." "But," I said, "I know so little of God." "Christian Science certainly teaches of God," he responded. And so I turned to Christian Science, greatly influenced by his words. With the encouragement of a friend I was directed to a faithful practitioner. From the first I was persistent in my study without getting much light — all seemed so dark. But gradually, with the help of the practitioner, the dark shadows which seemed so real were dispelled. Constipation (for which I had nightly used material remedies for fifteen years at least), sick headaches, and severe and continued indigestion were also healed at that time.
I had much and still have much of so-called temperament and disposition to overcome; but when I seem to fall by the wayside I try to look back on the progress I have made and to be grateful for it, and for an earnest desire to reflect more of the Godlike qualities.
For three months during the summer my son and I are practically alone in the mountains, and there have been many times, when inharmonious physical conditions have been persistent, that the knowledge of God's ever-presence and infinitude has sustained me. Then, too, the assurance that God is always with my son, and he needs no other presence, has helped me much. At such times I am particularly grateful for growing nearer to Him.
Gradually, my husband and I are working away from great materiality. For the wonderful help and encouragement of practitioners and all those who have aided in turning our thought to the things of Spirit, for the entire Christian Science movement and its beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and for all good, I am sincerely grateful.— Hollywood, California
