I was never of a religious nature in the sense of church going and Bible reading, still I had faith in a Supreme Being whom I knew not how to reach. I started to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy while seeking healing for another. Thereafter, for a number of years, I drifted away from this teaching, which I felt to be the truth, only to be brought back time after time, until at last I took up its study in earnest. As I have conscientiously studied and applied the teachings of Science, so far as I understood them, I have received healings and blessings.
Claims of error, such as toothache, earache, headache, colds, catarrh, worry, loneliness, temper, irritability, and to a large extent lack, have been overcome through my own understanding of God's ever-operative law.
One healing stands out very clearly as proof that God is "a very present help." Discontent and resentment were handling me because I had to stay in a place where I could not attend church or have access to a Reading Room. I felt that I could make little progress without these privileges. Study of the Bible and the textbook seemed to bring neither light nor comfort. Many physical ills presented themselves. Lack of even the most necessary things seemed apparent. At last, the symptoms of a so-called incurable disease, with which a loved one had passed on, appeared and aroused me to the need of relying wholly on God. I took a firmer stand both mentally and audibly for Christ's way in Science, declaring that I would cheerfully do what was before me and know that God was with me here and now. I read and studied both day and night, and Truth was clearly and beautifully revealed in my consciousness. Love was near and dear, and suddenly the physical ills were gone, supplies were received from wholly unlooked-for sources, my husband obtained work after months of idleness, and about two weeks later I was asked to join a group of Scientists who were meeting at the home of one of the members for services each Sunday. Thus was shown that when we do our part God, Love, gives us all good now in the place where we are.
