It is with heartfelt gratitude for Christian Science that I add my testimony to the many others that tell of blessings received from the application of this Science.
I was first introduced to Christian Science when traveling and dancing in the theatrical profession. I found it necessary to have an ulcerated wisdom tooth extracted, and within a few days was informed I had quinsy and lockjaw. I was unable to travel, and suffered intense pain, not being able to sleep or even lie down. Then someone I knew recommended I have Christian Science treatment. Although I had known of Christian Science. I had never before felt the need of it. A practitioner was called, and came to visit me. She read from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and then asked me to lie down and try to sleep. Within a short time I fell asleep, and when I awakened my jaws had unlocked and the quinsy condition had lifted. Friends attending me who had been most solicitous, expressed gratitude with me for this wonderful healing. With the continued help of the practitioner, within two days I was completely well and able to resume my dancing. This experience was a great proof to me of the healing power of Christian Science, and I thereafter continued interest and study, but somewhat spasmodically.
Another experience which I am most grateful for was the protecting power of God so apparent when my sister, her husband, and two small children planned to make residence in Canada, sailing on September 2, 1939, from London, England, on the ill-fated ship "Athenia," which was thereafter torpedoed. I am most grateful to the practitioner who so lovingly helped them through that trying time. On September 4, after the ship was sunk, we received a cable from my brother-in-law in Ireland, stating that he and the little boy were safe, but that my sister and little girl had not yet been found. The practitioner reassured me that "infinite Love fills all space," and the next day a cable was received stating that my sister and her little girl were safe and had landed in Glasgow, Scotland. A few days after that I received an airmail letter from my sister relating the miraculous escape of the group she was with. The lifeboat she was in drifted about for fifteen hours or more, finally being rescued by a destroyer. The swell of the ocean at that time was very great, making it difficult to reach the destroyer, several other boats overturning. However, my sister related that their boat seemed to be borne up, as if on the crest of a wave, without effort or mishap, and with perfect co-ordination the occupants were assisted aboard the destroyer and taken to Glasgow.
