How can I begin to find words to express the gratitude I feel for the many blessings I have received through Christian Science?
I turned to Science many years ago in search of help for a relative. I started in at once to read the textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I had read only a little way when I experienced a great sense of joy, for I saw that in the spiritual understanding of God was the antidote to every doubt or fear; that God could help me and that I could prove that I was receiving that help. Before this I had prayed in a feeble, emotional way to an unknown God somewhere in a far-off heaven—but here was a God also at hand, "a very present help in trouble" (Ps. 46:1). I saw that through Christian Science I could prove for myself that God is. I was so uplifted by this vision that for days I could think of little else. I read the textbook continually. As a result of this experience, I received a healing of nervous headaches, from which I had suffered all my life. That was over twenty-five years ago, and I have never had a headache since.
During the intervening years Christian Science has brought me through difficulties that I could never have surmounted without its help, including sorrow, lack, frailty, and discords of all kinds. I was at one time terribly burned on my face and head while attempting to put out a fire caused by a bottle full of blazing alcohol. A very slight understanding of Christian Science enabled me to emerge from this experience without a scar. Another time a runaway horse crashed into our car with such force that the door was bent almost double. There were six people in the car, and not one was hurt. I had turned at once to God and done the work we are taught to do in Science. The result was safety for us all, and though the horse was badly injured, we heard afterward that it had quite recovered. At another time, while vacationing at our summer home, I was stricken with inflammatory rheumatism and was very ill. I received an outstanding healing through the work of a practitioner.
