I WISH to express my deep-felt gratitude for Christian Science, and for the many proofs I have seen and experienced of its healing efficacy. Through the application of Christian Science I have relied upon God's help entirely for over fifteen years.
My first healing was of a fear of an internal disorder, which gave me much discomfort and pain for over a year; but with the help of a practitioner, who encouraged me at the beginning to study the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, I suddenly realized that there was nothing there to fear, and I was completely healed. Since that time I have had many problems of a physical nature, as well as mental depression, unhappiness, and grief, but they have all dissolved by lifting my thought to God. A harmonious state of consciousness took their place through my striving to understand more fully God's nature and my relationship to Him. At the time when a dear one passed on, it seemed that night that I was at the point of passing myself, when my sister called the same practitioner for me, and this mesmerism was quickly broken. At one time I fell down a long flight of stairs and hurt my spine. This caused much pain, so that I was unable to walk home from the office in which I was working. I rode home and immediately went to my books and started to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, and this one message from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 9) assured me that I was healed: "Dost thou 'love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind'? This command includes much, even the surrender of all merely material sensation, affection, and worship." I saw that to love God fully, I could not admit that matter had sensation, or that anything had happened which could separate my thought from His love.
A volume of words could never express my sincere gratitude for the privilege of serving at The Christian Science Benevolent Association Sanatorium at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and of training there to be a nurse. The love and patience, and the silent examples of the faithful workers there, are a valuable lesson to me. I received a beautiful healing while at this Sanatorium, which was a proof to me of Mrs. Eddy's words (ibid., p. 167), "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." The loving help of a practitioner at this time is great cause for gratitude. I had the most severe attack of pain I had ever had in my experience, but it made me take my stand more firmly than ever before for Truth, and I refused to admit that pain could touch my real self, declaring that I was God's perfect idea and that I would not dishonor Him by accepting the suggestion that I was anything less than that perfect idea. When error cried the loudest I thanked God it was not true.
