Testimony of Healing July 16, 1927 Issue

I have many times felt a veritable well of gratitude for...

Maude Latchaw

I have many times felt a veritable well of gratitude for the wonderful help received through the Christian Science periodicals. A few years ago I entered my subscription for the Christian Science Sentinel. It just seemed, and still does seem, that the articles were written for my especial benefit, so closely did they adhere to my personal problems; and to see so plainly that the instruction and light given through the agency of the different individuals contributing to the magazine exactly supplied the needs not only of myself, but, as I afterwards learned, of every other student who sought them as well, made me realize that Christian Science is no mere human speculation or theory, but is supported and governed by God, Life, Truth, Love, the one divine, infinite Mind. To have instruction so definite and continuous coming from such seemingly varied sources was clearly no accident, but decisive proof that there is but one source, God, good, and His myriad reflections.

Before subscribing for the Sentinel, I was a regular attendant of the Christian Science Sunday services, but never went to the Wednesday evening testimony meetings. An article in the Sentinel opened my eyes to the opportunity for the giving and the receiving of great good through attending these meetings; and I have scarcely missed a service since I began in May, 1923.

Not long after subscribing for the Sentinel, I became a reader of The Christian Science Journal, to which my landlady was a subscriber. From an article in the Journal it came to me that one should "grow, in the church," and the step of branch church membership was accordingly taken in July, 1923. A week or so later I entered my subscription for The Christian Science Monitor. The Monitor has been of very great help in a number of ways: first, the religious article, like the articles in the Sentinel and Journal, and like the Lesson-Sermon, quite invariably is an answer to a current personal problem; secondly, as I am very fond of languages, especially French, German, Spanish, and Italian, it is pleasant to have so conveniently at hand the helpful religious article in these foreign tongues, with which to refresh one's thought; thirdly, as a teacher in the elementary schools in one of the more difficult Italian districts, I open the study hour every morning with a quotation or poem expressing some uplifting thought which starts the day aright, and reduces my school discipline problem quite to the minimum. Many of these poems and thoughts are gleaned from the Monitor or the Journal. The children's stories also furnish an ever ready reward for work well done or a day's good behavior. Lastly, but not least, it is such a relief to pick up a paper and be able to see some headlines that do not demand constant and instant mental warfare in order to keep one's thought clear and correct, and at the same time know something about what is going on in the world. I now subscribe personally for the Journal, and have within the last month availed myself of the privilege of a subscription to Der Herold and to Le Heraut, and am deriving much benefit and pleasure from them.