I should like to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has meant to me. It has been my only physician since early childhood; and through the application of its teachings, I have been healed of every physical difficulty with which I have been confronted. My early training at home and in the Christian Science Sunday School taught me that I need not accept health laws, so called, as governing my life.
Two healings have been outstanding evidence to me that God controls my being and that the claims of health laws are unreal. The first was the overcoming of colds. I had suffered periodically from colds, particularly during the winter months. These were never serious, and I did no specific metaphysical work as we are taught to do in Christian Science.
About six years ago, however, I was working with a group of people, none of whom were Christian Scientists. I had not been in this environment long when I became aware that those around me were suffering from heavy colds, and within a few days I was manifesting all of the symptoms myself. I was sharply questioned by one individual who asked me why, if Christian Science is effective, I too was suffering from a cold. I did not attempt to answer him at the time, but his question aroused me from the apathy I had been manifesting.
I promptly set about applying to the situation what I knew of Christian Science and began studying the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly for that week. The section of the lesson which specifically related to healing emphasized that man was subject only to the law of God and that sickness was not a law governing man. I realized, as I read, that contagion was not law but a false belief that I need not accept.
I became aware that good alone is contagious, because God made everything, and His creation is wholly good. This realization brought an instantaneous healing, and I was immediately freed. I have never again suffered from colds, even though I have been in places where an epidemic of that belief was believed to be prevalent.
The second healing was that of an ear infection. One evening I began to manifest severe pain along one side of my face. This lasted for over a week, and during this time I had almost no sleep. The help of a Christian Science practitioner was enlisted. A friend who had had a similar experience and had undergone a surgical operation for it told me it probably was an infection of the inner ear.
When I related this to the practitioner, he lovingly pointed out that it was not necessary for a physical adjustment to take place in the ear. The only adjustment needed was in my thinking. He stated that I could then and there make that change by correcting the mistaken sense that I could suffer discord, with the truth that in reality I could experience only God"s goodness and love. With my realization of this truth, the pain quickly disappeared, and I was completely healed. I was not conscious of any physical adjustment or of any drainage, which mortal belief urged was necessary.
I am deeply grateful for these and other physical healings I have experienced. However, I am more grateful for the fact that Christian Science has become for me a demonstrable Science, based on Principle, which is applicable in every phase of my life.
I should like especially to express gratitude for class instruction and for the annual association meetings provided for in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy. These activities afford to each Christian Scientist the opportunity for systematic progress in his study and application of Christian Science. For seven years I have studied academic subjects in colleges, but I can truthfully state that this provision for instruction in Christian Science has given me the only practical education I have ever had in how one may experience a rich and harmonious life. — New York, New York.
