Those
were troublous days, days of unrest, of unhappiness, of disease, bondage to material beliefs, sin, and woe, days of inequalities, of social and economic instability, of dictatorship and inhumanity.
When
earthly joys are broken reeds,And all their hopes have fled,Then God puts out His loving handAnd gently am I ledTo higher, purer realms of Mind,Where prayerfully I proveThat deeper joy and higher hopeThat comes from trusting Love.
Gratitude for inspiration, encouragement, and help received from the testimonies in the Christian Science periodicals over a period of many years prompts me to share my earliest experience in Christian Science.
Gratitude to God for leading me to study Christian Science, and for the enjoyment of its boundless blessings for more than twenty-five years, impels me to testify that the truth heals when lived and practiced in accordance with the teachings in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
I believe that a normal growth in the understanding of Christian Science requires participation, where at all possible, in the activities of a Christian Science church organization.