During more than forty years I have experienced an almost unbroken record of excellent health, which I attribute to the study of Christian Science. But at one period I suffered from some sort of digestive trouble which did not yield readily to my prayers in Christian Science. At last I realized I was doing nothing more than keeping myself free from discomfort, and I knew a greater effort had to be made to overcome the entire erroneous belief.

At this point, when things became worse, one morning I had to return home and retire to my room. As I lay there in a state of semiconsciousness, it seemed as though whatever was connected with the digestive process in me had come to a complete stop, and I felt as though I were suspended without support in a deep and dark well.

But I had in my home a ready helper who came to my side to encourage and support me with statements of truth from the Bible and from the writings of Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. After each of his visits I had an experience I shall never forget, which I look upon as my individual experience of the saving Christ.

It seemed as though two invisible hands reached down to grasp mine and draw me toward the surface—hands so infinitely strong, yet so infinitely tender and loving. The third time this happened I felt I was again on solid ground, and moreover I knew that I was healed. And I was.

This healing had interesting sequels. While I was reading in the book of Psalms, my attention was arrested by the opening verses of Psalm 40. These long familiar words now sprang into life. They read: "I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."

Later, when sharing this healing with a close friend visiting from a distant country and mentioning that Psalm, she said, "Oh, how those words helped me when I thought I would die!" Next day the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly for the week contained words, long familiar, but now springing into life: "Christ's Christianity is the chain of scientific being reappearing in all ages, maintaining its obvious correspondence with the Scriptures and uniting all periods in the design of God" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 271).

There, I saw, was the Psalmist across the centuries, delivered from "an horrible pit" and "miry clay," his feet set upon the rock [of Christ] and his goings established; and there was my friend thousands of miles away, across the ocean and a continent, comforted and restored in dark days of deepest anguish, and, drawn out of a "pit" of erroneous belief by the ministrations of the same delivering Christ—all of us linked together in the golden chain of scientific Christian healing—the chain which spans time and space and will, eventually, bind together all men in divine Love's own "bond of perfectness" (Col. 3:14).

Happy indeed are those people whose God is the Lord. "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift" (II Cor. 9:15).

(Mrs.) Amber M. Bell Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I am very happy to be able to verify my wife's healing, which occurred exactly as described. She did appear to be very ill, though, of course, no medical diagnosis was sought. Each time she was read to out of Mrs. Eddy's works she improved, and finally a complete healing took place, and it has been permanent.

Leslie C. Bell