I Am unable to express fully my deep gratitude to our Father-Mother God for leading me into Christian Science. It has been my rod and staff through dangers, through trials,—domestic and business,—in health and sickness, in work and recreation, ever since that happy day fourteen years ago when its light first shone into my consciousness.
By applying the truth as taught by Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" I have been brought "into a wealthy place," a place where may be found the knowledge of true substance, of the omnipotence and omnipresence of infinite Mind, of man's dominion over every adverse circumstance,—over everything that is unlike God, good. Fear and worry have been reduced to a minimum. No matter what the seeming, it is at once placed in its right perspective. I rejoice to say that through the knowledge of the allness of God, good, and consequently of the nothingness of everything unlike good, I have been able to obey the Master's command to heal the sick.
I am also most grateful for having been permitted to be associated with the holding of Christian Science services in Colombo, Ceylon, which have proved so very helpful, and which have brought healing and other blessings to the small community of Scientists.
I also wish to give thanks for the wonderful help Christian Science has been to me on the veldt of South Africa; in the jungle of Burma; at sea during and after the war; in my relations with my fellow-men; in fact, in everything which goes to make up this mortal existence. I am especially grateful for my membership in The Mother Church. For a considerable time I was completely cut off, through the nature of my employment, from other Scientists and organizations, but I always felt the bond of unity and brotherly love, however seemingly isolated. This in itself was a great help to me.
Through Christian Science I have been able to rise above the false appetite for smoking and drinking. Mortal mind, of course, shouted its loudest that it would be a tough struggle after thirty years of constant practice; but mortal mind's claim was denied and shown to be a lie, at which it faded away into its native nothingness, and I was free,—free without any "tough struggle," without any superhuman effort. The truth destroyed the false appetites; the truth had made me free.
In conclusion, I wish to express my great appreciation of the Manual, the literature, and of the loving help and encouragement I have received from Boston and from practitioners and other Scientists in different parts of the world. For all these blessings I will say in the words of our Leader (Poems, p. 13):—
"My prayer, some daily good to do
To Thine, for Thee;
An offering pure of Love, whereto
God leadeth me."
— Durban, Natal, South Africa.
