The
Scriptural statement that man must work out his own salvation invests time with vital interest and value for him who would achieve that salvation, for his ultimate triumph over evil will be hastened or deferred according to the right or wrong use he makes of his time.
I have
a beautiful hydrangea which I call my Christian Science plant because it was raised from a little, crushed and wilted slip, and because it has reminded me so forcibly of the passage of Scripture which says that God made "every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew.
The
Bible is full of contrasts, but none more striking than that presented by the last verse of the sixth chapter of Mark's gospel and the first two verses of the seventh chapter.
A very
striking but entirely explicable phase of the irrepressible conflict between the spiritual and the material has presented itself in a rather undignified interchange of condemnatory compliments between some of the prominent ministers and the equally prominent physicians of one of our cities.
I should be very happy if the story of my healing by Christian Science treatment were to serve the purpose of helping some one else out of trouble as I was helped in my hour of great need; for my case certainly was man's extremity which is always God's opportunity.
As a mother of a family my heart goes out in love and gratitude to that good woman we are privileged to call our Leader, for all she has done through her book for me and mine.
Had I understood these beautiful words from our Christian Science Hymnal nearly six years ago I would not have left my old home and dear friends with a heart full of regret and despair.
Wishing to add my testimony to many others, I would state that before hearing of Christian Science I was about as low as I could be and live, having locomotor ataxia, rheumatism, nervous spasms, and several other complaints.
I have often wished to express my heartfelt gratitude to our beloved Leader for the perfect health I now enjoy through Christ and Christian Science, for I was given up by the doctors as incurable.
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