Words are inadequate to express my gratitude to God for giving Christian Science to this age through Mary Baker Eddy, whose purity and receptivity enabled her to be its Discoverer and Founder. Through its ministry I have experienced and witnessed the overcoming of all manner of discordant conditions.
The understanding that God is eternal Life, that man is His reflection, therefore untouched by sin, disease, or death, enabled my two teen-age children and me to be healed immediately, completely, and permanently of any sense of shock, grief, or separation at the time of the sudden passing on of my husband, caused by an automobile accident. There was close companionship and deep human affection among all members of our family as those who were acquainted with our home life could affirm.
A quotation from a Christian Science lecture, which I heard several years prior to the experience I have just related, I am passing along with the hope it will help others to realize, as it has me, the futility of sorrow and depression: "I once had occasion to visit a dear Christian Scientist whose life partner she had just laid away. She greeted me tranquilly, composed in body and mind, even with calmness, peace and joy. I said, 'Tell me about it, my friend,' and she replied: 'When my loved one seemed to go out, I found myself after thirty years of perfect companionship, suddenly confronted with what appeared to be a chasm in my life. It seemed as though I stood at the brink of a vast valley, and that if I was to go on in life's journey, I must go down into that terrible depression. And then Christ came in the gloom, and I saw the chasm was only an illusion of the senses, not of God, divine Life, therefore unreal, actually non-existent, and that I could face it, and, if need be, even go through it.
