Christian Science came to me about eleven years ago through the complete healing of a friend, when medical specialists had pronounced death imminent from tuberculosis in its last stages. When I had been interested for about a year, I experienced a beautiful healing of sorrow and unhappiness within a period of two months through the earnest and consecrated work of a practitioner. The truths learned and applied during and since that struggle with error have never ceased to bless me. I am grateful that many erroneous traits of character, such as resentment, self-pity, self-satisfaction, criticism, and quick temper are gradually but steadily yielding to the touch of Truth in my consciousness. The joy and happiness this is bringing to me are beyond expression. I have experienced the harmonious and just settlement of a lawsuit without its reaching court, and the healing of many other inharmonies, among them what a doctor would no doubt have designated as pneumonia, and of a wrist apparently broken in two places. On two occasions an abcessed eye was healed, once with the loving help of a practitioner, and again, when the practitioner could not be reached, instantaneously, through my own realization of man's perfection and his oneness with God. The latter healing unfolded clearly to me the value of making one's own demonstration whenever possible.
For all these proofs of man's present perfection I am very grateful. However, grateful though I am for every tangible proof of God's allness manifested in the healing of disease, I am still more thankful for an ever-increasing realization of His presence here and now, and of man's relationship to Him as His expression, which has no beginning and no ending, and cannot be marred or destroyed.
My gratitude for Christian Science increases daily with the growth of my understanding of its teachings through the study of the Bible in the light of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, which she established.
