I consider it a privilege to express gratitude for my healing through Christian Science of adhesions of the intestines, which followed an operation for appendicitis. Many physicians, including two noted specialists, had given me up, and the last one said that my time here was but a question of a few weeks.
In this hour of utter darkness I reached out in prayer to God for deliverance. An immediate answer came when my footsteps turned to a public library, where I was definitely led to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. As I opened this book for the first time a great spiritual light pierced the dark and gloomy chambers of my consciousness with warmth and healing. I had known nothing of Christian Science previously, except that a friend had told my mother it was a very beautiful religion.
I lived with this precious book for an entire week, and my study of it resulted in a complete healing. I was able to eat solid food for the first time after over two years of liquid dieting. Since then there has been normal action of the digestive system. I soon took my place in the business world and have been active along many lines during the intervening forty years.
At my mother's passing I tried to realize that she could not be separated from God nor could I be separated from her affection. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 60 of the textbook, "A mother's affection cannot be weaned from her child, because the mother-love includes purity and constancy, both of which are immortal."
When the estate was to be closed, it was found that my mother had left me a home adjoining other property left to another relative. There was an indefiniteness in the description of the boundary lines, and a sense of injustice resulted. I took a Concordance to the Bible and a Concordance to Mrs. Eddy's writings and looked up passages on inheritance, heritage, justice, balance, and adjustment. This passage from Psalms was a guiding star throughout the experience (Ps. 24:1): "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof."
After all sense of personality had been eliminated, I consulted an attorney. A survey was made to determine the exactness of the boundaries, and the final procedure conformed both to the human sense of law and to divine Principle. I saw this legacy as an evidence of Love's protecting care, for it enabled me to have a home which I could share with others. The one who now shares it was a close friend of my mother's, and our companionship has met a need for each of us.
The whole experience made me even more grateful to Mrs. Eddy, who made a provision not only for Christian Scientists but for everyone to enjoy the hospitality of The Mother Church and who also provided that branch churches should be maintained throughout the world to welcome all who are seeking a closer walk with God.
I owe my continual progress in Christian Science largely to the fact that I read the entire Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly the first thing each day except Sunday, when it is a great privilege to hear it read from the desk at the church services.
I am grateful for the opportunity to have served in various capacities as a local member of The Mother Church when If lived in Boston and later as a branch church member. And I am also thankful to have had class instruction before starting out on my business career.— Michigan City, Indiana.
