Even
at the risk of too frequent repetition, this enlightening quotation from a letter written by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, to a student is offered again to be earnestly pondered.
Before
the discovery of Christian Science, God's dealings with mankind, except for supposedly miraculous interpositions, were quite generally thought to be handled at long distance.
A Vacation
spent in pine-clad mountains overlooking the stillness of a deep blue lake proved to be most inspiring to five friends, to whom the opportunity for rest, relaxation, and spontaneous activity was a welcome and happy one.
I am most grateful for all the happiness, joy, and good which have come into my life through the earnest study of Christian Science, and for having had the privilege of attending a Christian Science Sunday School.
Although I regularly attended a Protestant church and Sunday school, and later united with that church, it was not until I began the study of the Christian Science textbook.
I am glad to express my deep appreciation for Christian Science, for the loving, unselfish life and work of our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, and for the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," written by her.
Not only do I wish to substantiate all the above statements of healing, but also to say that it was my privilege to witness the fact that Christian Science completely healed my wife of blindness in Paris, France, in 1932.
"Arise
and eat!" That angel voice Elijah heardAnew I hear; and wakened by the call, God's WordI take, and feed upon its promises of aid,Resting on them until discouragement is stayed.
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