I should like to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. All that I have and am I owe to this Science. In January, 1902, when it was first presented to me, I was a stranger in a new country and did not know the language. Eager to learn something of Christian Science and how healing was accomplished, I bought a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. With this book, my Bible, and a small pocket edition of an English-Swedish dictionary, I started to study, and glorious has been the progress. After two months of study I was healed of a rupture, although I did not realize at that time that such a healing could take place.
My two children have been brought up in Christian Science and we have had many wonderful healings in our home. In one treatment my son was healed of water on both knees and of poison ivy infection overnight. So complete was the latter healing that there was not the slightest trace of the condition the following morning. My daughter, who was recently healed of pneumonia, remained home from school but one day. She was healed of chicken pox and within six days returned to school with the required certificate from the Board of Health physician. We have had many other healings in our home, of sprained ankles, whooping cough, measles, some of which were overcome instantaneously.
Words cannot express my gratitude to our revered Leader for her unselfishness to and love for mankind in giving Christian Science to the world. I am grateful to the Board of Directors of The Mother Church for their steadfastness and obedience to the Church Manual; also to our faithful teachers, lecturers, practitioners, and every earnest worker in the Christian Science movement. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for class instruction, and for having had the privilege of being a guest for a short time at the Benevolent Association Sanatorium, at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.—North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
