When I remember all the blessings that have come to me...

Katharan H. McCommon

When I remember all the blessings that have come to me through the study of Christian Science, I feel deeply grateful for even a slight understanding of this beautiful truth. It came into my life at a time when I was greatly in need of healing. My health had not been good for several years, and materia medica, in which I had been brought up, had failed to help me. It was a stubborn inflammatory condition of the eyes which was the immediate cause of my coming into Science. This ailment had persisted for several months, despite continuous treatment from an oculist. Through a member of my family who was interested in Science, I consulted a practitioner. I had but one treatment, and because my thought was not ready for the truth, I was not helped. Soon after this my husband and I went to stay in one of the primitive oil towns of Texas, where there was a small Christian Science Society, but no practitioner. It was there that I finally turned with sincerity to Science and began reading Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. At first I seemed unable to understand much of what I read. But I realize now that my thought was unconsciously being prepared for the seed, for when a short time later I was able to consult a practitioner, I received an instantaneous healing. Not only was the inflammation of the eyes healed, but I was able to lay aside glasses which had been worn eighteen years for astigmatism. I was humbly grateful for this healing, which seemed nothing short of miraculous to me.

Meanwhile we had moved to a larger town where both a church and practitioners were available. For a month I paid daily visits to a practitioner, who explained to me the fundamentals of Christian Science. This period was productive of great good to me. I had much time to myself, which was given over to study. I was learning about God, and my body was responding to this growing understanding. I read Science and Health through many times, gaining a familiarity with our textbook which has been of inestimable value to me during later years of study. I was like a child going to school, eager to learn more of the divine power that had healed me.

As a result, old beliefs which for years had held me in bondage gradually fell away from me. I was healed of an incisional hernia, caused by the breaking down of an old wound. I had worn a support for this condition for about six years. But the healing that meant most to me was the overcoming of a so-called incurable intestinal trouble from which I had suffered greatly. The best specialists in New York I had been consulted for this trouble, and X-ray pictures had revealed a strange mechanical defect. According to the doctors, this could be corrected only by a surgical operation too dangerous to perform. So I was advised to try to avoid the severe attacks to which I had been subject, by a strict regime of care and treatment. I had for some time before coming into Science managed to keep myself in a state of indifferent health by the constant use of material means. However, I lived in continual fear of a recurrence of attacks of toxic poisoning, which always kept me in bed for days.

It was in this precarious state of health that Christian Science found me. Very soon thereafter I was able to lay aside all material remedies and claim my God-given heritage of dominion over the body. This all occurred more than sixteen years ago, and these healings have been complete and permanent. In the intervening years I have enjoyed wounderful health, experiencing but one serious illness, ptomaine poisoning, which was overcome through the loving help of a practitioner.

I am immeasurably grateful to Mrs. Eddy for her revelation of Truth to this age, grateful that she has made it available and practical to meet every problem of our lives. I am proud to be identified with a religion which is leavening the thought of the whole world; and am grateful for the corrective influence Christian Science is having on my thinking. I am far less critical and intolerant of the faults of my brother man than I used to be. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, for the privilege of class instruction, for the opportunity of teaching in the Sunday school, for the literature, the lectures, and indeed for every activity of the movement so wisely provided by our Leader. Above all, I am deeply thankful for the understanding of God gained through the study of Christian Science. I count it a very great blessing to live in an age illumined by this discovery.

(Mrs.) Katharan H. McCommon, Bayside, New York.

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