Christian Science attracted my attention some years ago, when, after trying all available material methods and means, without finding relief, a member of my family, who at the time was a physical, mental, and financial wreck, was led to take up the study of Christian Science, and within a very short time was healed of every ailment. I could not help observing the miraculous results, and in appreciation thereof I started to read the textbook. It did not require any great length of time before I was sufficiently interested to become an earnest student of Christian Science. The benefits and blessings that have come to me since then are too numerous to mention. I was healed of periodic attacks of chills and fever, and many other ills. I was freed from the use of tobacco after being addicted to it for over thirty-five years. This healing was so complete that the desire for tobacco never returned.
Some time ago, while I was serving as an usher of our church, after boarding a street car on my way to church one Sunday morning, I was suddenly attacked by the most excruciating pain that I have ever experienced. For a moment the suggestion came to leave the car, go home, and work over the difficulty, but the "still small voice" uttered to me the words from our Leader's writings, "Never absent from your post, never off guard, never ill humored, never unready to work for God,—is obedience" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 116); and from Science and Health (p. 113), "There is no pain in Truth, and no truth in pain." The thought also came that man is spiritual and perfect. Working along these lines, I proceeded to church, where I did my usual mental work preceding the service, and by the time I took my post the pain had ceased and I was free. Naturally I am profoundly grateful for this demonstration.
The study of Christian Science has furnished and is furnishing me with inspiring and uplifting thoughts which reveal to me more and more the true nature of God and man. It helps me to gain a clearer sense of the ever-presence and allness of our Father-Mother God and His never failing ability to help us in solving our problems; it helps me to cast out the old habits of fear and doubt, and replace them with joyous expectancy of good. I realize what our Leader tells us in "No and Yes" (p. 42): "God is not unable or unwilling to heal, and mortals are not compelled to have other gods before Him, and employ material forms to meet a mental want. The divine Spirit supplies all human needs."
