Christian Science was presented to me and help given...

Gertrude S. Nolte

Christian Science was presented to me and help given by a loyal worker in whose business office I was employed in 1908. I had been suffering from a headache when this man offered very kindly to help me. He gave me no explanation of Christian Science, but told me to go to the coatroom and read as long as I cared to from a black book which I should find on the table. I did as he said, soon becoming absorbed in the book, which was, of course, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. I was in the late teens at the time, and from early childhood I had attended first one and then another of the Protestant churches without getting a satisfactory explanation of God. Some months before, I had given up all thought of going to church, as I felt closer to God when reading my Bible alone.

That day as I picked up Science and Health it fell open at the page containing the seven synonyms for God (p. 465), and all of my questions were answered at once. I could understand the eternality of God as Principle, the omniscience of God as Mind, Spirit, the omnipotence of God as Truth, the omnipresence of God as Life, the infinity of God as Love, and after pondering these six words as our Leader used them I was able to form a clearer idea of God as Soul.

It became easy to understand man after I read the definition in Science and Health, for by studying that of God and of man together I saw very clearly that material man could not have entity or ego, in fact could not be man, because man could not take cognizance of anything unknown to God. That realization, coming to me so early in my study of Christian Science, paved the way for me and my children down the years, enabling us to face any physical difficulty without fear because, as it was unknown to God, man could not really know it.

My four children were born and reared with Christian Science help. Their births were harmonious, causing me little or no inconvenience or confinement. None of them has ever shown the least fear of physical discomfort, and none of them has ever associated sickness with death, and this has resulted in very quick healings whenever necessary. Christian Science has dispelled every lurking fear that has ever presented itself to me in their lives, whether moral or physical. Since they have reached manhood and womanhood they seldom have to ask for help, preferring to work out problems for themselves.

Words cannot express my gratitude for the help, comfort, and joy that Christian Science has been to me for more than a quarter of a century. I am also most grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church, for the blessed privilege of class instruction, for teaching in the Sunday school, and for other church activities.

(Mrs.) Gertrude S. Nolte, Dayton, Ohio.

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