Healed through Reading Science and Health

BY M. Mcl. G.

Since coming into Christian Science in 1893, it has been my thought that sometime I too would endeavor to express somewhat of the inestimable good which has blessed me every moment since I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

Through no human suggestion was it brought to my notice; for it, its author, and the believers and demonstrators of Christian Science were quite unknown to me at that time; nor did I know Christian Scientists till long after the text-book healed and blessed me beyond words to tell. Very strong was the conviction that I had stumbled upon something sweetly true, bewilderingly so, and which I did not understand beyond a dim sense that my many prayers and earnest desire for the Truth were herein contained, and so, answered. That I did not comprehend the method of the wonder worked upon my thought, as well as body, did not diminish the deep consciousness that it was Good.

The price of my first copy of Science and Health seemed small in exchange for what I knew its covers held for me of delightful study and revelation. This precious book then and there superseded all others, after the Bible; proving my Bible a marvelous book of which I knew comparatively little, although an old and valued friend, until the enlightenment came through reading Science and Health, discovering to me its treasures of wisdom, making clearer the purposes of Truth, the great love of Love.

It matters not what the human environment may be; it matters not in what wilderness of human fallacies one may be wandering, God—Good—is everywhere, and the faintest cry for help, persisted in, reaches Him. The circumstances of my awakening to the still, small voice of Truth, exemplified to me the omnipresence and omnipotence of God, for in the wilderness of the Gila Valley of Arizona, many miles from railroad or civilization, the healing Truth came to me as it were literally the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."

As the apprehension grows of that I have come into, it deepens the realization of the empty painfulness of past years, as compared to the blessed comfort and certainty of the present, with promises now understood, and the daily unfolding of the same to our consciousness. I can but gratefully and lovingly think of her, our Mother, who in our midst has demonstrated the way of good, and made the method of it so simple to all who will read Science and Health.

To the beneficent influence of the Journal and Sentinel I owe much, bringing to me each week and month, as they do, from far and near, through the earnest faithfulness of the editors and their staff, and the Publishing Society, the thoughts and works done in the Field, reaching human needs over this great round world.

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