I should like to give grateful thanks for all the blessings which I have received through adherence to the teachings of Christian Science. My parents became earnest students of this healing and regenerating religion when I was an infant, with the result that all the troubles and complaints supposed to be associated with childhood were overcome by spiritual means alone, and neither medical advice nor remedies were ever resorted to in any form. I can remember hearing my parents testify to the protective power of Christian Science, for I escaped many moral and physical contagions, and I was able, through the training at home and at Sunday School, to recognize for myself the right and wrong in my academic education. During these years of schooling I often had occasion to be grateful for happy relations with my fellow pupils, success in examinations, and the demonstration of supply for vocational training. I have been further protected in choosing the right post, in finding a home, and in time of accident. My physical healings include those of shingles, sprained ankle, cold, sore throat, abscessed tooth, neuralgia, and travel sickness.
During the war years I was particularly grateful for the Bible story of the barrel of meal that did not waste and the cruse of oil that did not fail (I Kings 17:9-16), for many times, instead of being short, I was able to give to others of my sufficiency. I am more grateful than I can say for the healing of grief over the passing of the one dearest to me. I have proved it beautifully true that "the loss of earthly hopes and pleasures brightens the ascending path of many a heart" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 265), for during this experience I was healed of discontent, and my feet were turned in the right direction.
I am grateful to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for her writings, for the organization of her church, and for her foresight in giving us the Church Manual. I am also grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, because these privileges awaken one to a greater sense of one's obligation to love one's neighbor as oneself and thus hasten the day of universal brotherhood.— Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
