For the many blessings that have come to me through...

Grace Virginia Mottram

For the many blessings that have come to me through the study and application of Christian Science, I am most grateful. I am grateful to Mary Baker Eddy, whose life of purity and unselfish devotion to the task of discovering the rule whereby her own healing had been accomplished, has given to the world a working, practical religion. I am grateful to the friends and practitioners who have helped me on my way.

After a prolonged series of osteopathic treatments, some years ago, which gave me no relief, it became necessary, according to a physician and surgeon, for me to undergo an operation. This was pronounced a success, but I returned to my work with very little energy and no interest in either work or pleasure. Many physical laws had been laid down for me, and it began to seem that I could never be comfortable or physically free. While I was in this mental and physical state it became necessary to find a new place to live, where I could be kept warm during the cold winter. After moving, I found myself in a Christian Science family, and immediately I made an effort to find some other abiding place. However, no other place seemed as convenient, and I was so very comfortable that I stayed on; and I have every reason to be grateful for the privilege of being in that home.

There I had practical proof of the truth of Mrs. Eddy's words in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 210), "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them," and of those in the closing sentence of the paragraph, "And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited."

Previous to this I had been coming home from work tired and cross and ready only for bed, getting up very little rested the next morning. Very shortly I found this changing, and desire to read or to be busy taking the place of the old weariness. While at the time I scarcely realized what benefit I was receiving, this experience has meant much to me, as I have grown in understanding and the realization of the importance of right thinking. The many material laws were proved false, and one by one old difficulties dissolved into their native nothingness.

During these months I had been a willing recipient—grateful, but not realizing truly my great debt of gratitude. Then there came to me a desire to know what there could be in the Bible or in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to produce such marvelous results and in so unlabored and spontaneous a way. I borrowed a copy of the textbook and tried to read, analyzing chapters and pages; but the more I analyzed, the less I seemed to know what Truth is. Finally I returned the book, because I felt it was not possible for me, at least, to understand it. It was at this time the kind friends with whom I was living invited me to attend a Christian Science lecture with them. To be agreeable rather than with any hope that I could understand what I might hear, I went. Nothing of the lecture seemed to reach my consciousness until the lecturer began to explain the relation of God and man; to explain that man is the image and likeness of God; that God is Spirit, and that man in His likeness must therefore be spiritual, perfect, eternal. The exact words I never remembered, but I knew then that the stone had been rolled away, and that the truth had been made clear to me.

Since that time I have experienced many wonderful proofs of the healing efficacy of Christian Science, and I can never cease to be grateful for the great good which had come not only to me, but to all mankind through this revelation of Truth.—(Miss) Grace Virginia Mottram, Los Angeles, California.

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