My two worst enemies were resentment and criticism, especially secret criticism. Several years ago I helped to take care of some lawns. Not very far away there lived a neighbor who owned two saddle horses, and at night he turned them out to graze. The lawns were not fenced, and the horses walked on them, leaving holes wherever they stepped. I had to fill these holes up, and all the time I was doing it I was resentful and secretly criticizing the owner of the horses.

One morning I awoke with a cold and went to a Christian Science practitioner for help. The practitioner worked for me three or four times a week for two weeks, but the cold kept getting worse. Finally she asked me if I was holding resentment or was criticizing someone. I told her about the horses and the lawns. Then I went back to work, and in a very short time these words came to me just as plain as day: "You cannot give love to one and secretly criticize another." The cold disappeared almost immediately. I never knew what became of the horses; I never saw them again.

One Sunday morning at church a woman who had a cold and a very bad cough sat directly behind me. When she would cough, critical thoughts would creep into my thinking. Suddenly this thought came to me very forcibly: How do you know but that this person will receive her healing here this morning? Immediately my erroneous thoughts ceased, and the woman may have received her healing at the same time, for I did not hear her cough again.

Just recently I received a very fine healing of a painful condition in my chest. This was a slow healing, but it gave me an opportunity for study and compelled me to advance spiritually. To me Christian Science is the way to love and serve God, the way to walk with God and to know man's real relationship to Him as His spiritual image and likeness, inseparable from Life, Truth, and Love. I am indeed grateful to the practitioner who worked so very faithfully for me. My gratitude to God for Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, and for Mrs. Eddy, our Leader, is greater than words can say.—Leslie G. Nicholson, Napa, California.

Some years ago I searched for a new church home. The orthodox church I had been attending had not given me the spiritual inspiration which I had needed in a critical time. My mother had a dear friend who always expressed much joy and happiness. She was a Christian Scientist, and one day I inquired of her concerning this religion and the Church of Christ, Scientist. She invited us to a Sunday service soon after our discussion, and I shall never forget that service, for I knew my search was over.

I immediately cast out all medicine, and within the next three months eczema, gallstones, hemorhoids, hay fever, constipation, tonsillitis, and anemia were healed in our family. An attack of appendicitis was met in a few hours, and our six-year-old daughter was instantaneously healed, through the power of the Lord's Prayer, of a bad cut under her chin. A badly bruised hand, which had been caught in a wringer, was healed quickly by my holding to "the scientific statement of being," on page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

My father was not a student of Christian Science, but accepted it enough to turn to it for healing. A hemorrhage which occurred after the extraction of some of his teeth and a serious hemorrhage of the bowels were healed instantaneously when help from a practitioner was sought. Our church gave a lecture, and upon invitation my father attended. He was greatly uplifted and radiated joy, saying he had never before heard such a lecture. The following Sunday he said to me: "Something wonderful happened to me at that lecture. The rupture is gone. I will never forget that Sunday." A condition which had given him considerable discomfort for years never returned.

More recently a severely sprained ankle was healed in our family in three days with the loving help of a practitioner. I consider these healings wonderful, but the spiritual understanding I have gained through them of the Bible and of my relationship to God outweighs all. I am most grateful to our Father-Mother God for Christian Science.—(Mrs.) Norma E. Ziegler, Indianapolis, Indiana.