When I read the grateful testimonies of those who have experienced the healing power of Truth as revealed in Christian Science, I feel that I too should love to add my thanks to theirs; but the thought that I had no specific healing to relate prevented me until I recognized that the very fact that I had no special healing of physical disability to record was in itself a wonderful proof of the preventive and protective power of this truth.
I have known of Christian Science from childhood, some nineteen years, and whatever understanding of Truth I have had, as well as the protective thoughts of Christian Scientists around me, has kept me free from sickness and suffering. If attacks of illness have come up, they have been quickly overcome, either through prayer and study of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy's works or with the help of a practitioner, and they have never lasted for more than a day or two. I have never really known even what these beliefs claimed to call themselves; I just seemed to be expressing discord, whereas I knew that God meant me to express harmony.
A great cause for gratitude is the way in which Christian Science is lifting me out of depression, discouragement, moodiness, and other faults of character. I have learned that the greatest help towards breaking up these beliefs is absolute honesty in acknowledging the seeming existence of the faults, and then earnest prayer for strength to overcome them, knowing that all things are possible to God. Acknowledging faults does not make them real, but puts them into the daylight of Truth; and so they vanish. One learns that the only remedy for the wrong thinking which produces such conditions is right thinking, and in Christian Science we learn how to think rightly.
