Article February 1, 2014

“Language is inadequate when bearing grateful testimony…”

Mary A. Ryland—“The Ortez”

Originally published in the December 15, 1889 issue of the Christian Science Series (Vol. 1, No. 16)

Language is inadequate when bearing grateful testimony to the book, Science and Health , by Mary B. G. Eddy, of Boston, Mass. By its simple reading I was healed of ills which baffled the skill of specialists and all curatives that love and money could command. After eighteen years of invalidism, and eight years of skepticism, without hope, with no God,—except a “First Cause”— I was given up to die.

A loving friend told me of this book which was soon brought, and thirty-five pages of the first chapter, thirty-first edition, were read to me that evening. The next morning I got up, walked, and read the book for myself.

I mention the chapter for the reason that nearly two years have passed since those wonderful words of Life were first read to me, and still their sacred sweetness is ever the same. Now I exclaim, God is all!—Mrs. Mary A. Ryland, “The Ortez,” Cincinnati, Ohio.