"To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." This first sentence in the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was clung to some years ago when my material, worldly sense of things was being shaken by adversity, and a complacency born of confidence in personal ability was gradually being changed to an understanding that "the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."
I was later led to a practitioner who directed my attention to the definition of God in Science and Health (p. 465) and recommended that I memorize it. I shall always be grateful for his loving but firm insistence that I read the entire Lesson-Sermon daily from the Christian Science Quarterly and the textbooks, the Bible and Science and Health. Up to that time I had not realized that the daily reading of the Lesson was a part of the activity of every loyal student of Christian Science interested in regeneration and demonstration. Since that time I have humbly rejoiced in a measure of progress in the apprehension of the great truths about God and man in His image and likeness as taught in Christian Science.
I have been healed of chronic colds, and a tendency to hoarseness and tired throat after prolonged speaking. Periodic sores in the nostrils have ceased to appear, and a sore spot which had been on my hand for several years was also completely healed, with no trace remaining. Liquor, tobacco, and profanity were soon seen to be incompatible with the sixth tenet of Christian Science, which includes the promise to be "pure" (ibid., p. 497). On one occasion, while engaged in work connected with our beloved Cause, I lost consciousness momentarily and fell to the floor. I was able to rise again in the power of Spirit and go on with my duties. I have always been grateful for the alert thinking of Christian Science friends present at the time, and the experience left me with no present embarrassment or fear of recurrence.
