On first coming into Christian Science I read the textbook,...

Leo Albert

On first coming into Christian Science I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. After several days of reading I noticed the first healing results, made manifest in relief from colds. From the start the reading and study were intensely interesting, although I had been a poor scholar and did not understand many of the larger words.

To go slightly into details, I had been examined by physicians and pronounced in the last stages of heart trouble and beyond medical help. Since boyhood I had traveled among the worst of associates, and in addition to the heart trouble I was a constant user of liquor and tobacco. I had reached such a mental state that nothing suited me. My memory was almost a blank, and nothing in the world meant anything to me.

But when I realized, after careful study of Science and Health, that Mrs. Eddy had found the divine Principle of all real being, I was a new man. When that truth dawned upon me, I could not find time enough to study Mrs. Eddy's writings; and I was healed. I have encountered many storms since, but they have all been overcome,—sometimes through my own efforts, sometimes with the loving help of practitioners,—and I am earnestly striving for a better understanding of that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus." My heart is filled with gratitude to our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

Before I attained some understanding of Christian Science, the Bible and religion meant nothing at all to me. Now my chief desire is for a better understanding of the Bible, for it has been spiritually interpreted to me by that wonderful revelation, Science and Health. I praise it as the most wonderful book of the twentieth century. I thank all who are in the Christian Science movement. I can realize how all come closer to the truth through earnest study; and it is my desire to be of some assistance in carrying on this great work. I can truly say that I am completely healed of the so-called heart trouble, the liquor and tobacco habits, as well as other bad habits. For these great blessings I thank God in the name of Christ Jesus.

Leo Albert, San Francisco, California.

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