"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy." I want to be accounted with the one leper who returned to give thanks to God for his healing, for I owe a lifelong debt of gratitude to Christian Science, and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who made its teaching practical and demonstrable, yet so simple in its application of the truth which set me free. We knew of Christian Science for many years, twenty or more, through a brother who looked into it for healing. In Christian Science I have learned that you cannot add when you should subtract, nor multiply when you should divide, and expect right results. I scoffed at Christian Science because of my ignorance of its teachings. The Scriptures teach us that the wrath of man shall be made to praise God, as I learned three years and a half ago, after we had faithfully applied and adhered to the methods, ways, and means of seventeen physicians and two chiropractors, but to no avail.
When I appeared to be near the end of mortal existence, suffering with heart, stomach, and dropsical conditions, and chronic constipation, and had been bedfast, having been disabled for months and incapacitated for daily employment, one of my relatives asked me whether I should not like to have Christian Science treatment. I told him I would do anything to be relieved of my distress and suffering. The practitioner who was called lovingly explained Christian Science and its ministrations—what it is and how it operates in bringing healing through right thinking. I began at once to read and study; and light and liberty came with obedience. "Obedience to Truth gives man power and strength," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 183 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." The truth was revealed to me as found in the verse in Psalms, "Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction."
I have become a member of The Mother Church and also of a branch church, in one of the activities of which I am serving, and I sing praises as Job did when he said, "I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee."
