"What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me?... I will offer to thee the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the Lord" (Ps. 116:12, 17). It has long been my desire to give my testimony in gratitude for Christian Science, which has completely changed my outlook on life and blessed me in untold ways. I am most grateful that it has revealed God to me as divine, ever-present Love, the one all-knowing Mind, in place of the unknown God whom I had ignorantly strived to worship before learning of Christian Science.
I became interested in this religion through friends who told me of their healings. When I became ill with tonsillitis, I felt that I had an opportunity to prove the healing efficacy of Truth. I asked a prac titioner for help, which was lovingly given. For some days I felt worse, but I was able to carry on my work, even though with great difficulty. One afternoon, feeling strongly that the condition should not be allowed to continue, I prayerfully sought divine guidance. Knowing that suffering could not be God-given, I questioned myself, "Am I going back to medical aid, or am I really going to prove what I know of God?" Then a portion of a Bible verse came to my thought (I Cor. 15:14): "If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain."
I reasoned that if the same God-power which Christ Jesus demonstrated in his healing ministry was not available today as then, all the preaching in the world would be vain, because not demonstrable. This suggestion I rejected, for I felt a deep conviction that God and His Christ are just as present and available today as they were over nineteen centuries ago. That evening I was able to eat a meal without pain, and the next morning I was completely well. I knew that I had found the healing Christ. A glorious sense of joy stayed with me for days. The Bible teaching of the presence of Christ, Truth, was proved to be true, and I could say with Job (19:25), "I know that my redeemer liveth."
