That Christian Science can heal, even when death seems near and inevitable, was proved to me in the healing of my daughter, over twenty-two years ago. After three physicians had given up all hope of saving her, I turned to Christian Science, for I felt that Christian Scientists knew how to pray availingly; and I am grateful to say that my daughter was brought back from death's door. A testimony regarding this healing was published in the Christian Science Sentinel of April 16, 1934. After the healing of my daughter I took up the study of Christian Science and later joined one of the branch churches. I was privileged to serve on the Distribution Committee.
Although I was studying Christian Science, I still clung to the past and allowed self-pity to handle me. I did not want any work done on this problem, nor did I work on it myself, because I desired to cling to the remembrance of a loved one. In Science and Health (p. 266) our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes: "Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love. When this hour of development comes, even if you cling to a sense of personal joys, spiritual Love will force you to accept what best promotes your growth." The day that I realized the truth of these statements I was completely healed of any sense of separation. All desire to dwell in the past left me.
I am grateful for the opportunity to serve our Cause in a small way; grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for class instruction, the testimony meetings, the periodicals, and Mrs. Eddy's writings; and I am particularly grateful for the Christian Science Hymnal. I get a great deal of comfort from the words in Hymn No. 41, which read, "The toil is pleasant, the reward is sure."— Hollis, New York.
