I wish to express my gratitude for the blessings of...

Gussie Howard

I wish to express my gratitude for the blessings of Christian Science. Nine months ago I first saw Science and Health, and I date my health and happiness from that day. After reading this text-book of Christian Science for two weeks I was enabled to take off my glasses, which I had worn for six years, and which the oculist had told me I could never go without. The apprehension of the truth expressed in Science and Health: God is all-seeing, God is my sight, healed my eyes. When this truth dawned upon me I took my glasses off, and afterward sold them in a jewelry store for old gold, and with the proceeds I bought a copy of the book.

Ever since I was a child I have been afflicted with very round shoulders. When about twelve years old my father, who was a physician, put shoulder-braces on me, but they did no good. After I grew to womanhood, I studied physical culture, with the Delsarte movements, but nothing seemed to accomplish the desired end. I was still taking these exercises when I began reading Science and Health, and after my eyes were healed, I left off these exercises for I thought that divine Love, which had healed my eyes, straighten my shoulders, too. I had read Science and Health four months, when my shoulders were made right.

I am very, very grateful for these physical blessings, but there is a greater blessing still that came with the physical healing, the wonderful spiritual uplifting. The greater blessing to me lies in the realization of the words: "Lo, I am with you alway!" Or, as our Christian Science text-book puts it: "Not only in all time, but in all ways and conditions" (Science and Health, p. 317).

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to our beloved Leader, also to my teacher and to all the other dear ones who have helped me in word or deed or thought into "the way everlasting."—Gussie Howard, Chicago, III.

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