I should like to express my gratitude...

Grace Barrons Richardson

I should like to express my gratitude for all the blessings which are showered upon me as I study Christian Science. A friend brought this religion to the notice of my mother when I was a child. My mother received a physical healing and enrolled me in the Sunday School of the local branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The teaching I received there has been a sure stand-by. I was spared most of the so-called children's diseases and was quickly healed of the two which did attack me. Ever since, I have enjoyed vigorous health.

Towards the end of my school days, the capital which was to have provided a training for me as a professional musician was embezzled, and I had to seek another means of livelihood. Through the help of Christian Science I was enabled to graduate at a university and then to take a business training course, at the conclusion of which I entered the civil service because I thought that the security which government employment offered would please my family.

However, I still felt frustrated because I had not been able to make music my career, and I was unconsciously making a reality of the sense of lack of funds that had prevented my musical education. Gradually, as I earnestly prayed, the sense of lack and of resentment was replaced with a realization of the spiritual nature of talent, justice, supply, and opportunity and of our need to express these rather than merely expect to receive them. As this adjustment of thought took place, more interesting, responsible, and remunerative employment unfolded.

During the whole of this time, I gratefully served the Cause of Christian Science in one branch church or another in a musical capacity, and this brought much comfort and joy. Eventually I was able to acquire professional qualifications in music. This experience gave me a glimpse of our freedom from material limitations and of our unity with God as His likeness, and it has meant much to me.

Through using the understanding I had gained from Christian Science, that God is omnipotent and omnipresent, I was wonderfully protected during the Second World War. My apartment in London was bombed when I was in it, but I was not hurt. Problems of home conditions and of personal relationship, which seemed very real at the time, were also worked out with the help of a devoted Christian Scientist.

Whilst I look back with gratitude for the way in which Christian Science has solved problems for me, I think I prize most deeply the privilege of class instruction and the feasts provided by our annual association meetings. From these I have realized how immensely we are blessed by all the activities of The Mother Church. Day by day I have derived the greatest help from the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly and from the articles in the authorized literature.

Membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church brings opportunities to serve which help one to enjoy a wider range of affection and usefulness. Such blessings make one realize the vital part which our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has taken in the progress of mankind and the obligation on members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, to live as closely as they can to the standards of Christ Jesus.—(Miss) Grace Barrons Richardson, London, England.

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