Earlier in my experience as a student of Christian Science, I expressed by means of our periodicals my gratitude for this Science. I do so again, more understandingly aware of the effect upon my life of this Science of Christianity.

A quick healing in my childhood of a supposedly inherited Stomach difficulty and of general frailty brought Christian Science into my home. This healing caused my parents to seek an understanding of what had healed me, and they became earnest students of Science. Soon they and I united with The Mother Church and later with a branch church.

After my healing, there followed years of invaluable Sunday School instruction that laid a firm foundation for spiritual understanding and the ability to demonstrate the truths of Science. I regard Sunday School training and Mother Church membership during my early years as a real anchorage. That child is indeed blessed who is a Christian Science Sunday School pupil!

Subsequent years have been filled with useful and satisfying activity and spiritual progress. There has come with an unfolding understanding of God an ever deeper sense of Truth as I have sounded its depths.

The first joy for healing received and for freedom from trials becomes substance as we proceed, and there glows upon our way a light illuming experiences so that they leave nothing but peace and certainty. All through the years as a student of Christian Science there has been the consciousness of divine Love's ever-presence to lift thought above the seeming to the real, to heal, and to bless. I have never found Christian Science wanting.

One does not, in human experience, completely avoid problems; but one learns much humility, steadfastness, and dependence on God while working them out. My blessings have been innumerable. I have seen God's all-power operate in many ways.

Health and well-being continued from the time of my initial healing. However, a few years ago there appeared on my face a cancerous growth, so pronounced by a physician who is a relative and who saw it one day when it was uncovered. Of course I firmly refused his unsolicited advice that the growth be immediately removed by material means. I knew, as I continue to know, that God's power is always sufficient for all things.

Treatment, or prayer, was sometimes sought from a practitioner during the time of solving this problem, for which I offer thanks. After some time it became clear to me that the healing was between God and me and that it would appear as soon as I had learned what I needed to learn of God and man's oneness, or unity, with Him. At no time did I doubt that I would be healed.

I recalled Moses' experience with the rod that appeared to him to become a serpent and then was found to be a staff on which to lean when he lost his fear of it (see Ex. 4:1-5). He saw the illusory nature of the experience. I then saw that this disease called cancer is but an illusion. In two days the entire evidence disappeared. During the several years since this healing there has been no return of the difficulty.

The stabilization of health, the joy, the certainty of God's power and presence, the supply, have through the years brought a great calm and an assurance of the ever-availability of Truth that have remained, and I anticipate their continuance. Opportunities to serve the Cause of Christian Science have filled my life with gratitude and happiness.

I have found this statement of Mary Baker Eddy to be a constant reminder of the requirement for a life of serenity and unfaltering trust in God (Miscellaneous Writings, Pref., p ix): "To preserve a long course of years still and uniform, amid the uniform darkness of storm and cloud and tempest, requires strength from above,—deep draughts from the fount of divine Love"

So, from a grateful heart, I thank our Father-Mother God for His care and guidance, for the gentle rod, when needed, for giving to mankind Christ Jesus, our Way-shower, and Mrs. Eddy, who continues as our Leader through her revelation of Christian Science to all in her priceless writings.—(Miss) Wanda Mansbach, Denver, Colorado.