Testimony of Healing December 13, 1913 Issue

My gratitude to God for Christian Science is very great,...

Almeda A. King

My gratitude to God for Christian Science is very great, far greater than I can put in words. About two years ago a copy of Science and Health was placed in my hands by a very dear friend, and as I read the book I knew I had found what I had long been searching for. I shall never forget the joy I experienced as the truth dawned on my consciousness.

I was brought up by good and loving Christian parents, but the old teaching seemed inadequate to give me the peace and help that I longed for. From the day I gained peace through the teachings of Christian Science, our text-book has been my constant help and comfort. Since then I have had many proofs of the efficiency of divine Truth as applied to physical ailments, some of twenty years' standing,—bowel, kidney, and stomach trouble,—all of which have vanished into their native nothingness.

When we know that God is Love, and that He has only thoughts of good for us, and sends us no evil, we gain the understanding of Him as an ever-present help. Truly His ways for us are "ways of pleasantness," and our paths are "paths of peace." The Bible and Science and Health, the Journal, also the Sentinel and Quarterly, are my daily study, and I am gaining an understanding of God as Life and as Spirit. I am also coming to see the nothingness of matter.