In the early days of seeking the truth in Christian Science,...

Alexie F. Buchanan with contributions from Annie E. Ames

In the early days of seeking the truth in Christian Science, when the way seemed dark and I was discouraged, often a ray of light would come to me through a testimony in one of our periodicals and I was uplifted and cheered along the way. The very thought of this has urged me to express my gratitude through the Sentinel. These words from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 450) impressed me very much when I first read them: "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good." Was this what it meant to become a Christian Scientist? Would I dare to enlist, since to me that meant I must never become a deserter? I can say to-day that to enlist in the cause of Christian Science brings the greatest freedom and blessings one can ever know. I have had many proofs of the power of Christian Science to save the sick and the sinning and am finding that the understanding of the gospel preached and practiced by Jesus is with us to-day, healing and saving through Christian Science.

As a mother I am learning to be patient and to trust the children to the care of their Father-Mother God. This has only come through experience in wrestling with this false claim of motherhood with its doubts and fear, and leaving the child in the care of ever present Love, who is never fearful, never anxious. My gratitude for Christian Science grows as I see these claims destroyed and the sense of this true life which is "hid with Christ in God" becoming clearer and nearer to me. To have caught a glimpse of the grandeur of our Leader's life through these words of hers in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 213) often helps me: "All that I have written, taught, or lived, that is good, flowed through cross-bearing, self-forgetfulness, and my faith in the right."—(Mrs.) Alexie F. Buchanan, Wollaston, Massachusetts.

Christian Science has proved to be a great blessing in these troublous times, and is without doubt the promised Comforter. I send my testimony with the hope that it may help some one, as the testimonies of others have so often helped me. Seldom have they failed to help me in solving problems. To realize, as these testimonies help us to do, that God is "a very present help in trouble" and that all things are possible to Him is cause for rejoicing.

I was a member and worker for years in a denominational church and Sunday school, and entertained an unreasonable and ignorant prejudice against Christian Science until I began to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, when suddenly its beautiful truth dawned upon me. Since that time I have been an earnest student and have received many blessings both physical and spiritual. I was healed of lumbago in two treatments, and my little granddaughter was healed of a birthmark, also in two treatments. I am truly thankful that through that inspired woman, Mary Baker Eddy, "the Sun of righteousness" has arisen "with healing in his wings."

(Mrs.) Annie E. Ames, Topeka, Kansas.

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