All Questions Answered in Christian Science

C. Douglas Hotchkiss

It is about seven years since I became interested in Christian Science. One whom I used often to visit at his bedside was lifted up through the healing power of Truth, and upon my first visit after that event my friend read to me from the text-book of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

Up to this period in my life I had never become interested in religion, and had formed no definite ideas concerning God and our relation to Him; but was looking for some explanation that would satisfy an aspiration to know something about such matters.

The little that was read to me from Science and Health at once impressed me as presenting the true philosophy of life, religion, etc., for which I was looking, and I immediately obtained a copy of the book, and have been studying it since. I find that it answers all questions of reason and logic. Through that slower process the same conclusion is reached which the intuitive perception at once recognized as the satisfying Truth which directs the thought, for a rational explanation of life, to the spiritual or divinely mental nature of everything,—the Creator and creation.

It shows that, right here, in the midst of so much false evidence of material forces, laws, organization, etc., through Christian Science we can begin to realize how our sense of causation and laws governing existence is to be so changed as to make life become permanent, continuously healthful and blissful, and exempt from the discords, imperfections, and mortality which accompany a material sense of life.

For instance, I have been depending entirely upon Christian Science in my encounters with sickness; and when I have witnessed the direct control of Mind over the body in my own experiences, the manner of the disappearance of all imperfections is suggested, and the universal adaptability of Christian Science to all mankind and every sort of disorder is seen. Many common ailments which used to cause me annoyance and suffering have disappeared. When Christian Science displaces a sense of disease and establishes health, it is understood that just so much immortality has been brought to light, because it removes a so-called material condition through a purely mental process, and demonstrates the eternal fact of mental power to maintain perpetual health.

Of the efficacy of Christian Science to effect moral reformation I am assured by the manner in which it exposes wrong motives and evil thoughts, and drawing one aside from himself far enough to enable him to turn around and behold what manner of man he is when he loses some of his self-satisfaction and is blessed with a desire for improvement. In the pursuit of the renewing of the mind the value of this Mind Science is appreciated.

With the magnificent system presented by the text-book of Christian Science, sustained and elucidated by the other works of our Leader, which abound with beautiful images of thought and practical observations and explanations of the subject, together with our valuable publications, which concentrate the rays of Science and Truth revealed to the individuals engaged in its demonstration throughout the world,—the facilities at the present time for gaining an understanding of the right method of obtaining health, happiness, and more abundant life are very great. I am thankful for all the benefits I have derived from Christian Science.—C. Douglas Hotchkiss, Hartford, Mich.

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