Certain experiences in life led me to believe that Christianity...

J. Wächter

Certain experiences in life led me to believe that Christianity must be lacking in one essential element. I missed the absolutely reliable, unchangeable, irresistible, unquestionable authority which would exclude all error and furnish us with firm support in every circumstance of life, preclude the possibility of success without true motives, and cause the upright and honest to prosper. I wa in a state of dissatisfaction, but was seeking the truth which would make me free.

A friend told me of Christian Science, and although I began to investigate its teaching with a certain hesitancy, I gradually became convinced that it is what it claims to be, namely, Christianity as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus, and my study was attended by an ever increasing sense of joy which dispelled all discontent, the latter being replaced by a sense of peace. Christian Science has become indispensable to me, and has proved an inexhaustible source of blessings for me and mine. We have often experienced its healing and liberating effect in cases of physical disturbance, as well as with regard to problems pertaining to daily life. Thus, through the understanding of the truth I have been completely freed of severe pain in the foot, which necessitated my staying in bed. Whooping-cough in the case of our eldest boy was overcome solely through treatment in Christian Science, and in an instance where a slight was put upon him undeservedly, the declaration of the powerlessness of wrong caused right to prevail and restored the peace which seemed endangered.

Christian Science awakens the desire for nobler and more godlike thinking, and enables us to acquire and maintain such an attitude of thought. It leads to a higher and better understanding of God, omnipotence, omnipresence; toward the recognition of God as Life, Truth, and Love, of the God who satisfies all the needs of humanity, and whom to know, as the Scriptures say, "is life eternal." The truth and divine origin of Christian Science is attested, to my thought, especially by the fact that success follows only when the consciousness has been cleansed of all unworthy motives. Experience shows that success is gained in the measure that our consciousness is freed of all impure and ungodly thoughts through our understanding of the teachings of Christian Science.

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