I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science and the wonderful truths revealed to us in the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. These truths are so far-reaching that we may obtain help in the middle of the ocean, on an island, or anywhere else if we but apply them and ask for divine help.
Two years ago I spent the holidays in Hawaii. On my way home, the second day at sea, I became very ill with a sore throat and a large lump on my neck. I took my textbooks, the Bible and Science and Health, to the ship's library to read, and there met another woman reading hers. She mentioned it might help if I could look up the word "lump" in the Concordances. However, we did not have a Concordance or even a dictionary. I then went to the ship's radio room and sent a cable to a Christian Science practitioner on the mainland and then went back to study in the library.
A storm was raging, and the ship was tossing back and forth. A large door on one of the bookshelves flew open. To my surprise, the three shelves were filled with Christian Science periodicals. It was as if I had found a rare treasure. I spent the rest of the day reading all I could and in a Journal came across an article by my teacher. The article told of a woman who had a lump on her eye. When she spoke with a practitioner, the woman's unhappy experience with her friends came to light. The practitioner pointed out that an accumulation of morbid thinking must be dissolved and eliminated by the Christ-love, which actuates all true reasoning and motivates all harmonious action.
