With a grateful heart I give my praise and thanks to God for Christian Science and for all that it has done for me and mine. I have found help and inspiration by reading testimonies of healing in the periodicals. In October, 1922. my testimony was published in the Christian Science Sentinel, and during the intervening years I have demonstrated Christian Science more extensively for myself and others. Every opportunity for service that has been afforded me in our branch church has been gladly accepted and has brought benefits that greatly exceed the effort and time that have been given to these activities.
One of the many healings for which I am most grateful was that of an annoying condition of athlete's foot, which interfered with my duties at home, as well as at the Reading Room, where I was librarian. Several times I asked for treatment from a loving practitioner and received relief each time, but the condition returned more forcibly afterward, bringing a sense of discouragement.
At this period a woman gave a testimony regarding prayer at a Wednesday evening meeting in our church. As I listened to her the thought came to me of what our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, says about the Lord's Prayer (Science and Health, p. 16): "Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spiritual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord's Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick." Surely, I thought, I do not understand the Lord's Prayer or I would not have this condition on my feet. As soon as I returned home that evening, I took the dictionary and the Concordances to the Bible and to Mrs. Eddy's writings and began looking up references on almost every word of the Lord's Prayer and its spiritual interpretation, given on pages 16 and 17 of Science and Health.
