Words are inadequate to express...

Ella Dean Hodge

Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for Christian Science; it not only showed me how to find health and peace, but it also gave me a greater understanding of God. For nearly twenty years I had been an invalid under medical care, undergoing many operations but only becoming worse, and I was without hope of recovery.

Desiring to know about Christian Science, I went to a friend who is a student of it. I told him I had tried all that medicine had to offer and had failed to find relief. This friend gave me my first copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I started to read the hook immediately, and when I read (Pref., p. vii), "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings," I felt confident that I could be well—not in a year or so, but at once.

Help was requested of a Christian Science practitioner, and within the next two weeks of joyous study, I had a complete healing of arthritis of the spine as well as of constant pain in the abdomen and back. In addition, I could eat anything I wished, although for ten years I had been on restricted diets. I will never forget the exalted feeling which was mine when I found I could drink a glass of milk without suffering a severe headache afterwards.

One day as I walked to the studio where I was employed, I thought of sight and of what it really means. I was having difficulty keeping my glasses in position on my nose and was continually pushing them up in place. For twenty years I had worn them but had to have them changed periodically for stronger lenses. Recently I had been told that I would have to have bifocals the next time they were changed, as my sight was becoming much worse.

I asked myself why I should be a slave to a piece of glass for sight when sight is a gift of God, a blessing that cannot be changed one way or another by a material thing like a piece of glass. God is omnipotent, all-powerful, and He does not need anything to perfect what He has already made. I reasoned that one often says, "I see." when he means, "I understand." One often sees in thought loving faces which are not present, or pleasant places that are far away. All at once I knew that sight is spiritual perception.

At noon of the same day, upon returning to the studio from lunch, I had to answer the telephone. I removed my glasses and placed them on the desk at which I was telephoning. Then I returned to my own desk and spent the afternoon at fine work which required clear vision. It was only upon returning to the other desk at four o'clock to answer the telephone again that I discovered my glasses where I had left them at noon. I had worked all afternoon without them. As I looked around the room and saw that everything was perfectly clear, I knew that I had been healed of the need of wearing glasses.

On page 406 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says: "The Science of being unveils the errors of sense, and spiritual perception, aided by Science, reaches Truth. Then error disappears."

Since that time I have had many healings, and I know that all things are indeed possible to God. I am profoundly grateful for Christian Science and for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church. Also I am grateful for blessings I had as an associate at the Christian Science Benevolent Association on Pacific Coast several years ago.—(Mrs.) Ella Dean Hodge, Encino, California.

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