I have just been reading a testimony in the Sentinel of...

GRACE SCRAFFORD VOORHEES

I have just been reading a testimony in the Sentinel of one who had tired of the pleasures of sense, had not read his Bible for twenty years, and who, in the bitterness of his heart, cried out to know God.

The contrast in our experiences impressed me, for I had been an active church worker and yet I cried out in the same bitter anguish for a God to save me from sin. So it is the world over, the hungry heart of humanity is crying for something to satisfy.

I had looked into infidel literature, and many isms, and had finally settled down to the positive conviction that the religion of Jesus Christ was the truth. I joined an orthodox church, but after several years of vain endeavor to lay hold of Christ's religion, I became desperate.

Seekers, hungry as myself, were coming to me to help them to a better way. I felt it best not to tell them of my own failure to find the rest and peace I sought, lest I discourage them, and I tried as best I knew to "point to heaven," though I knew I was not able to lead the way. With tears and bitter heartaches I studied my Bible for light and prayed earnestly that I might be delivered from evil. The sins of malicious thought, jealousy, envy, vanity, etc., seemed to cling fast in spite of all I could do to resist them, until I cried with Paul, "Who shall deliver me?" and not until there came the understanding of God as revealed to us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," could I intelligently add, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Only those who have experienced the rest, the joy, the satisfaction which this truth brings, can know what it meant to me. My prayer was answered; I had found a God who could indeed save from sin.

Nor was this all. I had given much care and attention to hygienic living in my family, but in spite of all I could do (more properly speaking, perhaps, because of it). we were a sickly family, requiring almost constant attention from the family physician, and much of the time of two specialists. Here again I was learning to feel my helplessness.

I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, but I knew if it were truth the physical healing would come, and it did. For more than seven years we have used no medicines of any kind. The Christ has been onr only healer. Deafness, dyspepsia, grip, flux, and many other ills have been met and mastered by the understanding of God and man's relation to him.

With the coming of Christian Science into my life came also the necessity of proving that God is the source of supply, as home and all income were entirely swept away.

As I look back over the experiences of the last seven years I do thank the Father for this opportunity to prove that He will indeed provide a table in the wilderness.

When the way has seemed dark I have clung to that promise with its condition: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added," and it does seem wonderful how the needs have been met. Divine Love has given me more than I have thought or asked, for I knew not "what to pray for as I ought," not knowing that Love had such good things to give.

Especially am I grateful for the educational opportunities afforded my two daughters for receiving not only unusual training in the regular school branches, but in music and art as well. This is one of the many blessings that have come to me through Christian Science. I now know that "Soul hath infinite resources wherewith to bless mankind" (Science and Health, p. 60).

How our love for the dear Leader grows as we strive to follow her, and see, in a measure, what it has meant to live near enough to God to be able to bring to the world this great salvation.

MRS. GRACE SCRAFFORD VOORHEES, St. Louis, Mo.

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