In the world of human affairs, when one unburdens himself of his difficulties to a friend, that friend listens with sympathy, and if he knows any way out that will be helpful he is glad to call attention to it. The student of Christian Science is always willing to tell what confidence in God, as revealed through Christian Science, has done for him. The periodicals offer the giver a wide opportunity to bless others with what has blessed him. So I desire to relate something of what Science has done for me.
I came into Christian Science because it explained and clarified early religious training, and I learned that faith was confidence in God, born of a fuller and better knowledge of Him as a Father who has nothing but good for His children. I want to do full justice to my early religious training. I grew out of it, rather than turned away from it, through the more satisfying and helpful ministrations of Christian Science.
My first healing was the dissipation of a severe headache as I grasped the teaching that the so-called material man is not the man of God's creation. Later a toothache disappeared through the help of another student. Christian Science was a rock of confidence and assurance in naval service in the South Atlantic during the entire period of the World War. And I attribute the fact that I passed through the so-called influenza epidemic untouched, carrying out my duties in constant contact with the epidemic in a crowded naval cruiser, to the absence of fear, due to Christian Science study.
