IT is difficult for me to conceive of our being without Christian Science, for this wonderful truth has meant very much to me and to members of my family over a period of twenty-seven years.
In the student world, the business world, and the social sphere I have experienced many proofs of both the protective and the corrective power of God, ever available to us through heeding the explanations and following in the footsteps of our beloved Way-shower, Jesus, and our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
Soon after we were introduced to Christian Science, my mother, two sisters, and I were healed of whooping cough. Through my knowledge of God and man obtained in the Christian Science Sunday School, constipation, which had not yielded to other methods, and warts on the hands, were healed. At one time, after telephoning a practitioner for help, I was instantaneously healed of a very severe headache. During more than fifteen years of continuous employment in a civil service capacity I was absent from my desk less than three days.
In the course of our intensely satisfying acquaintanceship with this religion, my dear ones and I have been healed of worry, superstition, and fear, a false sense of responsibility, an inclination to gossip or criticize, pulmonary trouble, influenza, measles, spinal meningitis, sleeping sickness, a wrenched back, broken toe, wrist, and hand; a fractured shoulder, sprained ankles, bad burns, fainting spells, throat trouble, pleurisy, a dog bite, nervous shock from automobile collisions, and grief at times of separation.
Still another cause for gratitude was that of an exceedingly harmonious and speedy childbirth, under Christian Science treatment, in the face of obstacles or adverse circumstances.
The precious privilege of class instruction from a truly consecrated and loyal teacher has proved the greatest blessing of my lifetime, and for this, as well as for church membership, the literature, practitioners and nurses, lectures, Reading Rooms, and the Christian Science Benevolent Associations, I am increasingly grateful.—, Long Beach, California.
