My heart is full of gratitude to God, and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for having found Christian Science, the "pearl of great price." Much has occurred since I took up the study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, over two years ago. Among my healings has come freedom from a frontal sinus trouble of sixteen years' standing, which was supposed to be poisoning my whole system. I had had two operations, neither of which was successful.
Some time ago I was taken with violent pains in my back. An old difficulty came up in full force. At first my fear was great because of the intensity of the pain. I asked help from a Christian Science practitioner, and was lovingly assured that I should be all right. She reminded me of the words in our textbook, page 231, lines 3-11. Very soon I gratefully realized that the error had come up only to be destroyed by Truth, and in a few days the whole trouble subsided. I have also been released from the habit of smoking (which I was told to take up for the prevention of colds). This I had thought to cure by self-will, but the one who was helping me told me that in proportion to my desire to grow Spiritward all false appetites would drop away from me. This, too, I proved within a short time.
I am a doctor's widow, and was a surgical nurse for many years. My four children have taken up the study of the textbook, and as a result of the great change in me my youngest son attends the Christian Science Sunday School; and all are gaining many blessings along the way.
