Many blessings have come into our home through Christian Science, and I gladly avail myself of the privilege offered us to express our gratitude through the periodicals.
Some of the healings for which we are grateful are of broken bones occasioned while playing football, diabetes, heart trouble, eye discomfort, rupture, running sore of many years' standing, stomach disorder, and spinal complication; also our children's teeth have been straightened. Some conditions have been overcome instantaneously; others have required more time and greater understanding. The reading of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and conscientious mental work have made these healings permanent.
First of all, I found that it was necessary to eliminate the belief that life and substance, cause and effect, intelligence and law, are properties of matter; also to see that each and every one belongs inherently to God, Spirit, Life, Truth, divine Principle. I found that all my inclinations and decisions, my sense of supply and of all human relationships, my faith in "the powers that be," had to be changed from a material basis to the spiritual, through the transforming understanding of Christian Science.
This unfoldment of right thinking about God, as taught in Christian Science, was like coming out of a dark dream into a beautiful garden, with wonderful vistas of loveliness stretching away in every direction. Only those who have passed through the same Red Sea of mortal error can realize the joy which comes to one whose every thought and experience is gradually changing from the bondage of the mortal to the peace of the spiritual.
My study of our Leader's writings, unfolding to me the realization of dominion over the body, was a wonderful experience; and I soon saw that my work had only begun, and that it should go on to complete dominion over all my mental activity.
Christian Science has been found applicable to business problems also. I cannot begin to tell what our literature means to me. It has been my companion for many years; especially the Monitor with its unusual weekly magazine, giving us reading and information in a way unlike any other paper in the world. I also find that when I adhere to the demands of divine Principle, I am able to make demonstrations in helping my fellow men to a knowledge of the truth that makes them free. I am grateful for class instruction and thankful to the teacher for his clear understanding and wisdom; grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church. I thank God that Christian Science heals.— Chicago, Illinois.
