The fifteenth number of Der Christian Science Herold...

Augusta J. Lilie with contributions from Nerella R. Ogden

The fifteenth number of Der Christian Science Herold has arrived, and is a welcome guest. I know that I should have expressed my gratitude long ago for the innumerable blessings we have received.

June is called the month of roses, and I have always loved it because it brings my favorite flower, and June, 1985, brought me the rose from paradise; its steam, flower, and leaves tell of Truth, Life, and Love; they never fade, but unfold more beautifully as time passes on. This flower is Christian Science.

When I heard of it for the first time, the prophecy of Amos was fulfilled in me: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." Through an understanding of the word of God, a neighbour was able to heal me of heart disease with which I had been afflicted for ten years. At the same time, I was freed from the discouraging belief that God had sent me my suffering to draw me to Him. I now feel drawn to God with all my heart, yet not through disease but through the daily study of the Bible, and Science and Health which elucidates the Scriptures. I have always had a great longing for something better, and this, Christian Science has brought to me. There is no question about Life which is not finally answered through the faithful study of the Bible and Science and Health.

I shall try to show my gratitude to God, and to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, by loving my neighbour as myself. May our dear Herold go across the oceans and find its way over the mountains and into the valleys, to carry the blessed message that God is here and everywhere to heal and to save. —Frau Augusta J. Lilie, Chenoa, III.

In grateful acknowledgment of the many benefits recived through the power of Christian Science, I send this word to others who may be seeking for the truth of being.

From a child I was always ailing, many times suffering intensely from organic troubles. I had been treated by many different methods in materia medica, and by hygiene, osteopathy, etc., but without any permanent benefit. The thought would often come, Why is not an invariable method found which can explain and solve all these problems of life and deliver us from physical and mental suffering? Why must we grope blindly? Why do not the dear, honest men and women who are striving, and praying to be able to answer our questions, find this rule and satisfy us as to God, man, and the universe? How I pondered these things! How I yearned to know how to pray to some sort of a real, living, satisfying God!

Inasmuch as "Desire is prayer" (Science and Health, p. I), my prayer was answered. I found my dear, loving Father-Mother God to be good, and my life "hid with Christ in God," through the study of the Christian Science text-book, Science and Health. Through its teachings, I see errors of temperament and disposition, such as sensitiveness or self-pity, gradually diminishing, —becoming dispalced by more unselfed love, more reliance upon God, good, infinite intelligence. I have found the great Physician who healeth all my diseases and satisfieth my longing heart.

Through the application of Christian Science I have seen all manner of so-called chronic and organic diseases healed; and false appetites, such as drink and tobacco habits, overcome. Misery has been turned into joy and praise to God, for deliverance from the "fire that consumeth to destruction." I have seen empty and hopeless lives made to blossom and bear much fruit of the Spirit, love begetting love, in the ideal brotherhood of man "seeking his own in another's good" (Science and Health, p. 518). I feel most grateful for the conscious presence of peace which I know is "God with us."

For my own healing and for the knowledge that Christian Science is preventive as well as curative, I express heartfelt gratitude to the dear friends who guided my first infant steps toward the "light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day;" to my teacher, for his wise counsel, and, above all, to our patient and wise Leader.

Nerella R. Ogden. Chicago. III.

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