I wish to testify to the uplifting, regeneration, and healing which have come to me through the earnest study and application of Christian Science as given to the world by Mary Baker Eddy.

Until the age of fourteen, I had attended a Lutheran parochial school, where there was daily Bible reading and catechism study; and my home atmosphere was deeply religious. Therefore, when I first heard of Christian Science, about thirty-five years ago, I thought it was something that had better not be thought about. In the year 1906, while I was in a large city on a business trip, a friend invited me to attend a Wednesday evening testimony meeting at the Christian Science church. I had so much confidence in this friend that I gladly accepted the invitation. I do not remember that I was especially interested in any part of the service except the hymns. I thought them the most beautiful I had ever heard, and one that was sung at that service must have wakened something within me, for I have remembered it through the years.

From this time on, I thought a good deal about Christian Science, and in due course asked for the help of a practitioner. The love and gratitude I feel for this consecrated worker cannot be expressed in words, for she led me patiently step by step; and when I asked questions she was divinely led to answer me in such a way that I wanted to know more and more of God as taught in Christian Science.

Through the years I had suffered from so-called sick headaches. They were considered hereditary, for my father and forefathers had suffered from them, and therefore they were accepted as belonging to me. On Armistice Day, 1918, I was so ill that I could not raise my head from the pillow and was blinded with pain. Late in the afternoon my sister helped me to the telephone and called the telephone number for me. I told the practitioner that I had a terrible headache, and asked her to help me; she said she would. I sat at the table waiting for my sister to help me up and back to bed, but in less time than it takes to tell it, I began to feel as if something were being lifted off my head, and I was free. In all these years I have not been tempted to believe in sick headaches; the healing was instantaneous and permanent.

In 1931 I passed through what seemed a severe testing time, and I was gloriously comforted and healed by the Christ, Truth. An only sister, who had mothered me from childhood, was in a hospital seriously ill and under physicians' care. Every day I went to the hospital to be with her, and other heavy demands of a business nature were made on my time, so perhaps I did not do as much protective work as I should have. I began to manifest a very unsightly and painful condition of the face and nose. About the first day the physician noticed it, and told me that I had better go home and to bed, for I was going to be a very sick woman. I asked him what it was, and he answered, "Erysipelas." Immediately I knew that that was mortal mind's classification and not God's. I did go home, but not to bed. I took my Bible and Science and Health and reached out to God. The next morning I again went to the hospital, and when the physician saw me he said, "You are better," and added, "You are lucky! You don't know how lucky you are, but I do." The doctor thought it was luck, but I knew that it was not luck; it was the consciousness of the Christ, Truth, that had healed me. On page 583 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy defines "Christ" as, "The divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error." The condition was completely and permanently healed in five days, and my gratitude for this healing is a constant song of praise.

Progressive steps in Christian Science have been taken. With the better understanding of God as Father-Mother, Love, and man as idea, forever dwelling in divine Mind, I have been healed of grief at the passing of loved ones. Since there are no vacuums in divine Love, there are no losses, for divine Love fills all space.

Before I came into Christian Science, life seemed empty, useless, and disappointing, but since I have become a student of this wonderful Science, life is filled with good, with joy; promise, and fulfillment. I am grateful for many years' membership in The Mother Church and for membership in the local branch church; for the periodicals which always bring fresh inspiration for deeper consecration; and for the Manual of The Mother Church, which is an unerring guide in all human endeavor. I am sincerely grateful for class instruction from one of Mrs. Eddy's loyal students, and for the privilege of being about my Father's business.

(Mrs.) Martha M. Percival, Fargo, North Dakota.