All the health, peace, and joy I have had during the...

E. Irene Mycock

All the health, peace, and joy I have had during the past four and a half years I owe to the understanding of God as revealed to me through the study of Christian Science. Thus it is with deep gratitude I send this testimony, trusting that it may help others, especially any who, perhaps, are "halting between two opinions" (Science and Health, p. 236).

Until the autumn of 1913 Christian Science was unknown to me. For some four or five years previous to this I had longed for a religion based on the life and teachings of Christ Jesus. From childhood I had attended a church and had loved the same; but the time had come when, instead of accepting blindly the teachings of others, I wanted to understand for myself. In my search for Truth I had almost unconsciously imbibed the habit of criticizing and judging my fellow-men. Pride and injustice, which seemed so rife, I hated; and I condemned the people whom I considered were guilty of the same.

It was thus Christian Science found me; and although all I heard about it at this time was adverse to it, yet for this reason alone I deemed it worthy of notice. At the same time, too, I learned incidentally that one with whom circumstances brought me into contact was a Christian Scientist. She never mentioned Science to me, but lived her religion.

In the year 1916 I commenced reading the Christian Science Sentinel, and I received great help from the truth revealed in the articles in this periodical. I also remember well how eagerly I welcomed the arrival of this weekly messenger of divine Love. Incidentally, a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, came across my way, and I read it. This, my first reading of Mrs. Eddy's inspired book, was done with both fear and criticism.

However, in September, 1917, when in great grief, I saw, as after a heavy storm, all my doubts and fears disappear; and where before all had been darkness, there was Truth revealed. God, Love, was All-in-all, and there was no other power but His. Divine Love had cast out all fear. I went to a Christian Science practitioner for help, and shall never forget the peace that came to me during that visit. I was asked to procure a copy of the textbook, and I did so. This time I read that priceless book in love and humility, endeavoring with the patient, loving help of the practitioner to put into practice what I read. The Lesson-Sermons from the Christian Science Quarterly were a constant source of strength; and after a year had passed I realized that my health had been better than ever before in my life, in spite of the fact that, to sense, I had passed through a period of very great discord. Neuritis and very severe headaches, from which at times I had suffered, I was entirely free from; and I have never had a return of them. Slight headaches, sore throat, and, quite recently, a severe cold and cough have been overcome without any material remedy.

For the physical freedom and sense of protection which Christian Science gives me, I am indeed grateful; but no words can express the gratitude I feel for each new unfoldment of Truth that has come to me during these years of my study of the Bible in conjunction with Science and Health. Christian Science is teaching me how to prove the truth of Jesus' words, "The kingdom of God is within you." Instead of judging and condemning my fellow-men, it is teaching me to put into practice the truth as taught by Jesus. It has also taught me how to handle and overcome sensitiveness, discouragement, and self-condemnation, and to know that the Christ is always present if we will but hold steadfastly to the truth and refuse to believe in the testimony of the material senses.

I am very grateful to our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, because her writings not only have given me ideals, but are teaching me how to put these ideals into practice. To each one of the several avenues through which I have received, and am receiving daily, a better understanding of this truth I am grateful, because I know now that each one is a stream from that great fount of infinite Love, divine Principle, which I am learning to recognize and obey as my only God.

(Miss) E. Irene Mycock, Manchester, England.

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