It is with a heart overflowing with gratitude and love for our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who discovered and gave to the world the priceless blessing of Christian Science, that I submit this testimony.
Before Science found me I had suffered for thirty years from self-condemnation and an almost complete lack of confidence in my ability to make right decisions. From early childhood, everything I did that was not perfect I exaggerated out of all proportion and suffered accordingly. Making decisions was an agonizing experience; and, more often than not, when one was finally made I wished I had made the opposite one or a different one. Many times during this long struggle I would have an occasional experience or a whole day that was so perfect and mentally uplifting that I knew in my heart there was a way out of the darkness; but I certainly did not know how or where to find it. In my search for peace and freedom I read many so-called scientific books to no avail.
When Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy was put into my hands by a dear sister, I knew at once that my long search for the truth was ended, for the book answered every question that had troubled me for years. Here I learned that I was not the miserable sinner I had so long considered myself, but actually the perfect child of God, unfallen, pure, and free.
