It is with a deep sense of gratitude, that I seek to express...

David Reld

It is with a deep sense of gratitude, that I seek to express what Christian Science means to me. Because desire was reaching out after something more satisfying, divine Love met that need, and the truth of the Bible promise, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled," was and is daily being demonstrated by me.

Christian Science was first brought to me, somewhat over two years ago, through the loving thought of one who had at different times sought to bring the healing Truth to my wife, who often manifested physical troubles of various kinds, and had great fear of a fatal termination These attacks would leave her weak and exhausted for some days after. Our family physician used to tell me, when asked what the trouble was, that the causes were, catarrh of the stomach, nervousness, and weakness through injuries received from instruments. The sense of weakness and fear of these attacks prevented her doing the heavier kinds of housework, or if she did she had to suffer the consequences.

The condition of my wife, and also the recent sickness of one of our children, had caused me to be willing to search further for help. So although I, at that time, thought. "No more religion for me," yet when this kind friend left some copies of the Sentinel, I began reading them, and the more I read the more I became convinced that they expressed the truth that I had been seeking from early boyhood; first in a mission hall, then in the Salvation Army, afterwards in different Evangelical churches, as change of location made each most convenient. When Christian Science appeared, mortal sense had abandoned all these, and was relying strongly on socialism of a radical and material kind as the best system to meet the needs of crying humanity, my own many and perplexing problems included, and was ready to contend that religion, as such, was something to beware of, because practice, as I saw it, was at such variance with precept. The reading of the Sentinel was in a few weeks' time followed by the borrowing from the Investigators' Library of Scranton church, of a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (our Leader's invaluable gift to this and future ages), and after some months' study of the text-book and the valued help and fellowship of the members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Scranton, of which, within a few months, I became a member, I had the privilege of class instruction, the value of which I feel words are inadequate to express.

The Scripture, "Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new," best describes the transformation wrought by Truth. The growing perception that no good desire was lost, but that all would be satisfied above all the we could ask or think; the enlarged realization of the presence and availability, here and now, of God, Good, to meet and overcome the mortal sense of discords, both of sickness and sin, has brought much rejoicing and satisfied the longing for something permanent, substantial, and demostrable.

Various claims of sickness that had tyrannized over our children and held my wife in bondage, also minor troubles of my own, such as toothache and injuries received while following my trade of plastering, have seen healed on the basis of Christian Science, without recourse to material means: Truth as apprehended in Christian Science, applied to such conditions as lack of work and business competition; lack of financial supply, and difficulty in collecting; is surely exposing their falsity and helping me to know them as myths of mortal sense with no foundation in Mind. Counting over the many, many blessings, the fruits of Christian Science, I exclaim with the Psalmist, "Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our Salvation." "O taste and see that the Lord is Good."

David Reld, Moosic, Pa.

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