January 22, 1921
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The
world in general has always been and is eagerly seeking an answer to these questions: What is love and friendship?
Fling
wide the closed portal!Loose the imprisoned thought;Let hope on wing immortalFly forth to seek a havenAs dove of old once sought—To seek a glorious haven,With heavenly blessings fraught.
In
the eighteenth chapter of Luke we read the parable of two men praying.
Of
all the benefits to be gained through the study of Christian Science, that which is of greatest value to humanity is without doubt the ability to reason in accord with divine Principle.
No
bell can ring it in,For lo, 'tis here—Full knowledge of his GodMan's glad New Year!
The
Protestant church has always placed the doctrine of personal responsibility in the front of its teaching.
Any
one who stops to reason must admit that material eyes do not see nor material ears hear anything of themselves.
It is with a heart full of gratitude that I send this testimony of the benefits received through Christian Science.
Some time ago I found myself, according to the human sense of things, a total and abject failure in a business way, and pretty much so in a physical way.
Five years ago last November I turned to Christian Science for help, after two years of suffering from tuberculosis of the right knee.
Before I knew about Christian Science I believed that our well-being depended upon our obedience to what we call physical laws.
It is with deep gratitude that I send this testimony to express my appreciation for the great benefits which I have found in Christian Science, and especially during my service overseas, when it taught me the omnipresence of God as my only defense against the dangers which tried to beset us.
It would be very ungrateful of me to wait any longer to give my testimony for the many blessings that have come to me and my family through the knowledge of Christian Science.
About seven years ago, very shortly before a child was born I was suffering from a form of kidney disease called dangerous, accompanied by vomiting of an unusual type.
One of the greatest blessings that has come to me through Christian Science, among an innumerable host of them, including many physical healings, has been the understanding that God's will is good and that only good can come to us from God,—that afflictions are neither sent nor permitted by Him and have no existence beyond false sense testimony.
I have decided to make a public answer to a question often asked me as to why I left the denominational church in which I was brought up.
It has been more than three years since I first began the study of Christian Science, and I think it is time to tell others what it has done for me.
It is a wonderful thing after years of weakness, unrest, and struggle to find that God takes "no pleasure in the death of him that dieth," that it is not God who makes our hearts sad, and that we need never struggle in vain for health, joy, or prosperity.
Having never sent in my testimony of healing through Christian Science I feel I should, as it may be the means of helping some one, as I am benefited by the testimonies of others.
In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs.
