As one who has experienced the...

Mary Edith Todd

As one who has experienced the blessings of Christian Science from the age of about six, I can testify to its unfailing help in all circumstances. I deeply appreciate Mary Baker Eddy's self-sacrifice and courage in giving up the approval and support of all dear to her in order to establish for mankind the way through which blessings and healings similar to those recorded in the Bible are available now and for all time.

In my childhood I was healed almost instantaneously of mumps, measles, and chicken pox, and a little later—while I was a farm student—of a badly poisoned leg. In this last instance I was wearing farm boots and working again in two weeks. I never had more than one day in bed at any time, and the healings were always the outcome of my mother's prayer, given in accordance with the teachings of Christian Science. I am truly grateful for these healings, which are unforgettable, but I had not then learned to do my own work, and I continued with my life in acute shyness, which made me dread meeting new people.

It is for the lessons learned about my true being and work, through a later experience, that I am most grateful.

I went through a period when failure seemed all around, and even my staff were dissatisfied. I then had a severe motor accident, in which I was hurt in many ways. I had help from a Christian Scientist at once and no other assistance, and was wonderfully healed, so that though my kneecaps seemed cracked, I was able to walk to my business in two and a half days.

Following this, I was summoned for an examination of the reason for the accident, but due to a misunderstanding over the date I did not appear, and was therefore convicted, and license endorsed—that is, stamped on the back with a notification of the incident. This endorsement seemed to be "the last straw" to my sense of self-depreciation and failure, but from it, with the help of the practitioner, emerged the greatest blessing of my life, for through this help I began to realize that God was, in truth, absolutely satisfied with me, for I was His constant expression, and to look for this satisfaction to be reflected around me by His other ideas. I realize now that for all those years I had been believing that God had made me capable in His image, but that I was placed alone in the world thereafter, and was then responsible for the accomplishment of what I had to do. Later, while driving in traffic, it came to me that each idea of God is a blessing, and I saw that I too could only bless. From this I have grown to see that I am never an isolated idea, but an expression of God's presence, and that my ability comes from Him all the time. Since then most of my shyness has been overcome, for at each meeting with my brother man I have the glorious consciousness that both of us have only blessing for each other. Now I am unafraid that shyness can hide anything of God.

The doors to my true self now are open, and much more love shines through, so that the warmth and number of my friends have increased, and I am able to help others as never before.

For this knowledge, and the freedom and joy which it multiplies continually for me, I can never express gratitude enough.—(Miss) Mary Edith Todd, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.

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