In August, 1914, when arriving in Zurich, Switzerland, I fell and injured my knee. I suffered a great deal and could hardly walk. Three physicians told me that I had fractured a cartilage and would probably be lame for years. About four days after this accident I was stopped in the street by a gentleman who was staying in the same hotel. He asked me about my knee and inquired whether I had ever heard of Christian Science. I told him that Christian Science might be very good for imaginary troubles, but he could not make me believe that I did not fall, or that I had no pain. He replied that he did not want to make me believe anything, but I surely must know that the first chapter of Genesis says that God (and here he defined "God" as "divine Mind") made man in His own image and likeness, and made him perfect. His definition of God interested me at once, for I had always been looking for someone who could explain God to me. He then said that if I could let go of the mortal (carnal) mind or physical senses, and cling to the divine Mind, I should not feel any pain. This gentleman left for Holland two days after this conversation, and I secured passage on the first steamer leaving Rotterdam. When we reached the Dutch boundary, we stopped several hours, and it was then that my friends told me that I did not limp any more. Not knowing much about Christian Science at that time I could not explain this improvement, but I knew that during that slow journey through Germany I had pondered a great deal on the explanation of God as divine Mind, in contrast to the carnal or mortal mind; and whenever the pain seemed unbearable I could in this way look away from my knee.

On my return to America I was glad to get some information about Christian Science and soon bought a pocket edition of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Just by reading this book I had many physical healings, of chronic bronchitis, sprained ankle, severely injured instep, colds, almost weekly headaches that lasted two or three days, homesickness, and of the need for glasses that I had worn for a number of years for what a noted oculist called the worst kind of astigmatism, with one eye farsighted and one nearsighted. One year after I had laid aside glasses, the same oculist said that in all his practice he had never seen a case like mine, as, instead of growing blind as he expected at my age, my sight had rather become stronger.

In 1919 I visited a friend in Chicago who was a Christian Scientist. When I told her that, though I had received all these physical healings, I never felt anything of the spiritual uplifting of which the Scientists spoke in their testimonies, she told me to buy a Bible and read the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly. A short time after beginning to read these lessons carefully I felt as if a light had come within me; and as my understanding of the truth grew, many undesirable traits, like self-centeredness, resentment, intolerance, criticism, and so on, disappeared. I am still far from what I should like to be, and my daily prayer is for growth in love.

I also had an instantaneous healing of ptomaine poisoning in the summer of 1924, while in Paris. I had been unconscious for several hours, and when the lady who had brought me home and had stayed with me all the afternoon said that she had to go home and would call in a doctor, I tried to get up, but swooned again. She said she heard me whisper "book"; and though not a Christian Scientist herself, she looked for Science and Health, which, while still flat on my back, I opened. My eyes fell on these lines on page 393: "Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action. Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good." I knew at once that it was not God, good, that caused me to lie on the bed, and I got up. My friend was frightened, and kept on saying that it was a miracle.

I have only one regret since I experienced the many blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science, and it is that I did not become interested in it when it was first brought to me, and that I did not strive more for the truth right from the start. I am very grateful for membership in The Mother Church, and for the Christian Science literature. —(Miss) Jenny Miehle, Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

Christian Science has indeed been to me the "pearl of great price." It has helped me in so many ways that it is impossible to enumerate them all. Greatest of all its blessings is the understanding of the Bible which it has given me. I am also deeply sensible of the great debt of gratitude I owe to Mrs. Eddy for having shown us how to make the Bible practical in everyday life.

I attended a Christian Science church when a mere child. It appealed to me instantly, and since then has always been the church of my choice. During my experience in France with the American Expeditionary Forces, as a member of the Women's Unit of Telephone Operators of the United States Signal Corps, divine Love went with me every step of the way. In the fall of 1918 I had charge of a small telephone office in the intermediate section. It was the duty of our office to handle calls for troop movements and hospital supplies. There were only five operators, each one greatly needed, with no one to take her place in an emergency. Influenza had broken out and the hospitals were full. Other departments suffered greatly from loss of men, but not one of the girls was absent a day from her post of duty during this trying time.

A physical healing which stands out in my thought took place at the birth of our second boy. Several months before his birth I had a severe accident. Through the faithful work of a practitioner I was relieved of all pain at that time. One night I realized that the birth was near. I was unable to get the nurse and midwife whom we had engaged, and there was no one else to help me. I turned unreservedly to God and the child was born immediately, the birth being painless. Every condition was harmonious, though it was an hour before anyone came to help us. The next day I felt as well and strong as I had ever been in my life. To the practitioner who helped me absently during that time I am very grateful.

I cannot close without expressing thanks for the church and its many activities, and for the privilege of class instruction with a consecrated teacher. I wish also to say a word of praise for the Christian Science War Relief Workers who helped me many times during that trying period in France. —(Mrs.) Eleanor Hoppock Leonard, Seattle, Washington.