Words can never express the gratitude I feel for what Christian Science has done for me and is doing for all mankind. Christian Scientists can never be grateful enough for the loving and selfless service of our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. Her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," contains in its simplicity and completeness the exact statement of the Science of being. It makes the Bible an open book for thousands who, before, caught but vague glimpses of its eternal truths. For the textbook, the other writings of our Leader, the periodicals, each of which fills its own particular place in supplying our needs in the journey from sense to Soul, for the blessed privilege of class instruction, and for a visit to the Christian Science Benevolent Association Sanatorium at San Francisco, I am extremely grateful.
I should like to tell of a healing I had a few years ago. A growth appeared on my face. I denied its power, and thought no more of it. Some time later, I realized that the spot had grown much larger and was becoming irritated. Suddenly I became overwhelmed with fear. I dared not tell my husband because he was not a Scientist, although he was very tolerant concerning this Science. I became so frightened I scarcely knew what I was doing. Somehow, I found myself in the outer office of a physician who was a friend of ours. Error was arguing, "You must find out if it really is what you fear." I opened a book on his desk and found a horrifying description that fitted the case perfectly, so far as mortal mind could testify.
At once, the realization came that the farther I went along this road, the worse the condition would become. I almost ran out of that office and toward the telephone office. I called a Christian Science practitioner by long distance. For five days and nights she worked faithfully, lovingly, and patiently, and I did all I could to co-operate with her. On the fifth day, the realization came that this thing could not manifest itself in God's kingdom, in which I lived and moved and had my being. I told the practitioner that the work was finished. There had been absolutely no change in the outward appearance and the physical symptoms were, to mortal sense, unchanged; but I knew the healing had come, and rejoiced. In a short time the irritation ceased. Some time later the spot became smaller, and about six months later even the scar was no longer evident.
