How thankful I am to join in...

Julia Gomien

How thankful I am to join in the grand song of gratitude to God, to Mrs. Eddy, and to all who are taking part in the Christian Science movement, for the many blessings we have received all these years! Through the knowledge acquired by studying "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we have proved that God is indeed "our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." I should like to add my tithe to the wonderful storehouse of testimonies that have been published in the periodicals.

I am deeply grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a Christian Science Society.

Christian Science came to us in answer to prayer, at a time of great need thirty-two years ago, when my mother was given up by the doctors. Friends who had been to see us previously told us afterwards that when they saw her again in the street they followed quietly behind her, because they could not believe their eyes when they saw she could walk. We were Bible students, but we should never have been able to apply its truths in our daily lives had it not been for Mrs. Eddy's textbook, which has made the Bible an open book. I am very thankful also for the Christian Science literature, because many a time I have found the answer to a problem in the articles published therein. Several years ago I was instantaneously healed of severe intestinal trouble through reading an article on the denial of error.

One of the most wonderful experiences which I have had took place recently. I had been working for some time with "the scientific statement of being" in Science and Health (p. 468), where it says: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

I was teaching English to a fifteen-year-old pupil, who expected to fail in mathematics because he had been unable to understand the teacher at school when he explained the problems. I told the boy all things were possible to God, and that we would be able to prove this if we were more obedient, loving, and kind. So we started to work out the problems one by one. When we got to the more difficult ones, I realized we were both God's children and could reflect only divine intelligence. I began working out one of the problems on paper as the boy looked on. Suddenly he said: "How easy that is! Now let me work the others out." He did so, and you can well imagine his joy and mine when he took his examination and got a good mark. This was further proof to me that all things are possible to us when we realize our at-one-ment with God. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 215), "Whatever is governed by God, is never for an instant deprived of the light and might of intelligence and Life."

Through the study of the textbook the promises in the Bible have been made available to us all. Christian Science has made my life worth living. I know that with God's help, and with the understanding acquired through the earnest study of this Science, I can be faced with no problem that cannot be solved in Science. I am learning to see my brother aright, in the same way that Christ Jesus saw him. May my life attest my gratitude always.—(Miss) Julia Gomien, Santiago, Chile.

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