It
is reported in the Acts of the Apostles that on one occasion, when they were teaching publicly, "believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.
A physician
recently wrote, in a letter published in a widely read American magazine, "I am not sure that loneliness does not cause more pain and suffering all told than some of the conditions which we doctors work so hard to relieve by the various products of scientific research.
The
truth revealed in Christian Science is greatly needed in these latter days, when much that seems to be insistently wrong everywhere requires proper solution through the correct healing method lovingly applied.
In 1916, as a result of the hardships of the World War, my husband became ill with a severe case of articular rheumatism, which kept him in bed for months.
What gratitude fills the human heart when one is able to prove that God is All-in-all, and that there is no place where the truth of being cannot be so established in consciousness that the proof of healing is realized! What a debt the world owes to that spiritually-minded woman, Mary Baker Eddy, for her constant search of the Scriptures which led to her discovery of the Science of being, or Christian Science!
My gratitude for Christian Science is deep, because it turned the course of my life from hopelessness and the self-destroying conduct which hopelessness engenders and made me certain of man's unlimited usefulness for good.
When recalling all the benefits and blessings which have come to me and to my family through Christian Science, I feel that I shall always be humbly grateful I would not wish that I might have been spared a single experience, because each one has meant a spiritual victory.
From
self-will's way, where briar and thorntear at my wayward feet from morntill weary night comes down, I turnwith deep humility to learnthe way that Thou wouldst have me go.
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