When I was in my teens, Christian Science was presented to me, but it was not until several years after I married that I really took up the study in earnest; but the seed had been sown.
During the intervening years, my husband was in a hospital for two months, and during that time I was sustained by what I read from a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, which I had purchased.
Since that time, I have taken up the study of Christian Science, become a member of The Mother Church and a branch church, and am most grateful for the privilege of class instruction. I have served in a branch church in almost every office, and this is where I have progressed in an understanding of Christian Science.
I would like to relate a healing for which I am very grateful. When hurrying across the kitchen floor one evening, I slipped and fell on my back. I was not able to rise and so lay still while my husband and I repeated "the scientific statement of being," which is found on page 468 of the textbook, Science and Health. The concluding words are: "Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." After some time I was helped to my bed. I had an appointment to keep in the morning, and we had been invited to a neighbor's home the following evening. After a sleepless night I arose in the morning to find I could not stand, but dropped to the floor. My husband said he would call a Christian Science practitioner, to which I agreed. After he talked to her for a few moments, he put the telephone to my ear and the practitioner repeated to me a verse from Jeremiah (32:17): "Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee."The practitioner said she would do prayerful metaphysical work for me. In Christian Science, the real man is seen as a spiritual idea of God, made in His image and likeness.
My husband and I studied the Lesson-Sermon for the week in the Christian Science Quarterly. When we had finished, I got up from the bed healed, and dressed myself and kept the appointment on time. That evening we were able to attend the gathering at our neighbor's home without evidence of the accident.
On page 55 of Science and Health, our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, makes this statement: "In the words of St. John: 'He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.' This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science." I am most grateful for our dear Leader, who worked so untiringly and unselfishly to bring Christian Science to the world.
Blenheim, Ontario, Canada
