I should like to express my gratitude for the mental corrections as well as physical healings I have had since coming into Christian Science. One of these mental corrections I should like to relate with the hope that it will reach someone who may be traveling the same mental road that I traveled.
Some time after taking up the study of Christian Science, in fact after I had received many benefits therefrom, I found through the reading of the periodicals that a sense of antagonism was developing because of the frequent use of Mrs. Eddy's name in the articles contained therein. At first this hardly attracted my attention, but as time went on this name appeared more conspicuous and I could not see just why it was there. The evil arguments that come to one at these testing times came to me seemingly with unusual logic. One of these arguments was that to leave this name entirely out of the articles would not affect the truth contained therein in the least. This matter had become quite serious with me and I realized that something should be done, as I was not enjoying the articles as I had previously. One day while I was thinking this matter over the thought came to me: In Science there is a reason for everything. Then and there I decided that I must know the reason for this name being used so often.
In working out this problem I turned to the experience of the healing by Jesus of the man who was blind from birth, recorded in the ninth chapter of John. The Pharisees asked this man how his healing came about. He told them, but some of them did not believe that he was the man who was born blind, so they called his parents and questioned them. Being informed by them that this man was their son, and that he was of age and could speak for himself, they again turned to the son. They said to him, "Give God the praise: we know that this man [Jesus] is a sinner." At last the questioners were ready to accept this healing as coming from God, but they were not ready to accept the channel through which it came. Right here I received my healing. I saw that I had been endeavoring to receive the message of truth as given to us by Mrs. Eddy and reject the messenger. I found that this could not be done. I have never since had this feeling toward our Leader's name appearing in these articles. I am grateful for this correction.
