In the midst of the present world turmoil, I am so...

Mary Blanche Clay

In the midst of the present world turmoil, I am so grateful for Christian Science and all its activities that I should like to share with others something of what it has given me.

On page 1 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur form trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds." My first answer to such prayer, although I did not recognize the fact until later, came through hearing of The Christian Science Monitor. I had been in a foreign country, away from home and friends, and was ill, lonely, and very unhappy, when I was sent to a nursing home for a so-called rest cure. One day a friend, who was the only Christian Scientist I then knew, came to see me. In conversation I said how much I wished there was a newspaper which gave news without sensationalism. She answered, "There is." Then she told me about the Monitor, and later brought me a copy.

When I first read the textbook I could make nothing of it, but I did recognize that this friend had something which others had not, and which I wanted.

When one who was considered the support of the family passed on, I was comforted by Christian Science. Also, with the help of this Science our needs were supplied then and have been since, and we were able to keep a home, although at first it had not seemed humanly possible for us to do so.

My mother at an advanced age, although not herself interested in Christian Science, was brought back from the gates of death by Christian Science, treatment after little hope had been given of her ever regaining consciousness. She was also healed of a broken bone, the result of a fall, when it was considered inadvisable to attempt to set the bone surgically.

I have had various physical healings myself; pets have been healed and garden problems solved, and lost articles have been recovered. I have also gained an interest in life which I did not have before, and this especially through membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and through taking part in the activities of the latter. For all this, for the loving help of practitioners and friends, for the literature, and for all that Christian Science is bringing to the world, I am most grateful.—(Miss) Mary Blanche Clay, Heswall, Cheshire, England.

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