Christian Science has healed me of many ills, and for twenty years no medicine has passed my lips, nor has any physician prescribed for me. This is reason enough for me to be profoundly grateful; but greater causes for gratitude have been the healings of so-called mental anguish caused by remorse, grief, alcoholic intoxication, the use of tobacco, and other bad habits. During these many healings I have been forced to learn that Christian Science never fails when rightly applied. I have failed it at times, but as I persistently try to know more about God and His idea, man, I find myself more alert and consequently more able to prove the facts of Christian Science, which never fail.
I became interested in Science when my mother passed on, a saintly woman to whom I had been a prodigal son. Remorse, grief, despondency, despair overtook me in this experience—especially so because I had somewhat awakened. Some loving friends assured me that Christian Science would bring peace to me and suggested a visit to a Christian Science practitioner. This spiritually-minded woman explained so clearly the allness of Life and the nothingness of death that my thought was quickly cleansed of all these false beliefs. I remember well one statement made by this practitioner: "All that you love of your mother has not passed away." As she talked with me, I pondered that statement and saw that, truly, the love, kindness, understanding, purity, strength, virtue, intelligence, motherliness manifested by my mother were indeed here now, because they have their source in God, who is ever present.
This great truth, so clearly understood that day and the days thereafter, enabled me to feel no sense of grief whatever at the seeming loss of other dear ones, for I knew that all that I could truly love of them does not pass away. Study of Christian Science richly unfolded to me the fact that, as Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 266): "Man is deathless, spiritual. He is above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with God and the universe."
