There are many reasons why I should be, as I am, truly...

Harry Abeles

There are many reasons why I should be, as I am, truly grateful for Christian Science. It has helped me physically, mentally, morally, financially, socially, and, best of all, spiritually.

Many years ago, through Christian Science treatment, I was enabled to lay aside glasses which I had worn for fifteen years, and which, I am glad to say, I have never needed since. I was so grateful for this healing that I turned earnestly to the study of the truth, and healings followed in quick succession. It is with heartfelt and sincere gratitude that I am able to testify that through the efficacy of Christian Science I was healed of occasional headaches, stomach disorders, and constantly recurring colds. On one occasion Christian Science healed me of what the doctors term hemorrhoids, and at another time of what the dentists call incipient pyorrhea. A sudden attack of poisoning and another of influenza were both quickly and permanently overcome by means of this Truth-cure alone. Again, with the aid of Christian Science, I was completely healed of a facial nervous trouble that caused me untold misery and anguish, and often made me keep aloof from my friends and relatives.

I am grateful also that Christian Science has cured me of any desire for intoxicating drink, the use of tobacco in any form, and even of the desire for coffee, tea, or such like so-called stimulants. This moral regeneration has been attended with great improvement in character; and anger, resentment, sullenness, greed, envy, mean criticism, and the like,—all these phases of error and their kin,—have begun to disappear and are being replaced in some degree, slowly perhaps but surely nevertheless, with a measure of humility, true meekness, gratitude, and love for God and man.

My gratitude for Christian Science extends also for help in my home and business; for whereas there were formerly comparative poverty, hardship, and grievous toil, fear, worry, and penury, I have found by means of the truth some measure of success and prosperity, some measure of ease and contentment, a great measure of joy in work, and of the peace "which passeth all understanding." Time and time again in my vocation as traveling salesman I have experienced what appeared to be almost certain accident; and when those who were with me, or with whom I was traveling, exclaimed and marveled at what they called the "close call" or the "narrow escape," I have always recognized the protection and omnipresent power of infinite Love.

I can never be grateful enough that Christian Science has opened the Bible for me, that it has brought me in touch with "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and Mrs. Eddy's other great writings. I can surely never express my gratitude in words for the loving help and advice of Christian Science friends and practitioners, and the countless times that some article or poem in our timely periodicals, or some expression of Truth and Love by a Christian Science lecturer, has saved me from dropping back over the brink into the abyss of materiality.

For all these blessings, and for many others, I am more grateful than words can tell; but I think that I am most grateful for the dawn of an understanding of what God really is, what man really is, and what their relationship is to each other; for the realization and absolute conviction, the sweet assurance, that Christian Science is not for any single person or for any group of persons, but for all mankind; that it is the great light which is "breaking through the clouds of darkness;" that it is the promised Comforter which Jesus said would surely be sent to us; that it is to heal us all of the fears and worries, the sicknesses and diseases, which "so easily beset us;" and that it is without doubt the only way of salvation from all sin, and finally even from death itself.

And so I am most grateful, indeed, to God, the Giver of all good; to Jesus, our great Way-shower; and to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for the understanding that Christian Science is for all men and for all nations; for all peoples and for all races, wherever they may be, until, as Paul so beautifully assures us, "we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."

Harry Abeles, Los Angeles, California.

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