I wish to express my gratitude...

Rebecca F. Holliday

I wish to express my gratitude for the Christian Science Sunday School. After the World War I was confused by the transiency of material living and was seeking a religion that would satisfy me spiritually. The confident faith and understanding expressed by students who had attended the Sunday school led me to take up the study of Christian Science.

I am especially grateful for the awakening, through this study, to the truth that God is the only Life. This truth came to me strongly when I saw three of my friends protected from the effects of having been struck by a bolt of lightning. For me the curtain of materiality was rent, and the words from the Bible, "For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God," came with new meaning. From that moment I found God to be All-in-all and sought more truly to express Truth, Life, and Love.

I have been healed of influenza in less than twenty-four hours, and of an abscessed tooth and severe pain in the ear in an equally short time with the help of a practitioner. I am grateful for the many instantaneous healings I have had when suggestions of inharmony have been vigorously denied and replaced with the realization of God's presence and man's inseparability from Him.

Seeking first the kingdom of God has brought a clearer understanding of employment as spiritual activity, and has resulted in steady and congenial work. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church, for membership and the joy of serving in various capacities in a branch church, and for class instruction.

I am grateful that Jesus, through his obedience to God, demonstrated his oneness with his Father and was thus able to heal the sick and the sinning and teach his disciples to do likewise. I am grateful that Mary Baker Eddy discovered the law of Christian healing, and that through the study of Science and Health and Mrs. Eddy's other writings the spiritual meaning of the Scriptures is made clearr and it is possible for everyone to follow in the way Christ Jesus taught.—(Miss) Rebecca F. Holliday, Hingham, Massachusetts.

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