Words can hardly express my gratitude for Christian Science. Only those who have passed through an experience akin to poverty know the joy of being freed in the right way from a terrible sense of bondage.
My effort to solve the problem of financial lack covered a period of several years, during which time every human plan and practically every human tie failed of relief. Like a man engulfed by quicksand, I seemed to sink deeper with each struggle for release. I am grateful that during the experience my faith in Christian Science seldom wavered. Finally an honest desire came to me to work more for the Cause of Christian Science and less for self, and to think more about the Cause than about personal problems of any kind. While I was striving to be obedient to this aspiration, the problem of financial lack lost much of its terror, and in a short time conditions began to change for the better.
I am deeply grateful for every activity of The Mother Church and of the branch churches, especially grateful for the Church Manual, the textbook, and the periodicals; glad for the privilege of working actively in the Cause. At this time I wish again to express gratitude for the healing of a critical illness, a testimony of which appeared in the Christian Science periodicals some years ago. The healing proved to be permanent.— Seattle, Washington.
