For seventeen years I have been receiving the benefits...

Amy F. Dalrymple

For seventeen years I have been receiving the benefits of Christian Science study; and, like countless others, I can never tell the depth of my gratitude for it. That I am one of that happy multitude who have learned that the revelations about God contained in the Bible are really true, that His goodness and care are provable, and that one may really do the works required by Christ Jesus of his followers,—these immeasurable blessings are surely great enough to call forth all the gratitude of which one is capable.

I was very much opposed to what I thought Christian Science to be until my first healing, and nothing but a most unwonted humility born of deepest discouragement enabled me so far to forget my foolish pride and self-will as to ask for Christian Science treatment. The practitioner who helped me, however, reflected so clearly the love and harmony I so sadly needed, that the old, bad antipathies were quite forgotten and Truth did its healing work. The physical ailments which were holding me in continual bondage included chronic asthma, intermittent but persistent head colds, pleurisy, tonsillitis, and headaches, with such a fear of east winds that I was always wretched while they lasted. These conditions have all been completely healed, and a most uneven and critical disposition all but forgotten.

A burned hand and a sprained ankle were overcome during my first year of Christian Science study. The hand was burned in a mishap which threatened to burn a building, and the case was complicated by much fear and excitement. The fright and the burn were instantly healed, and this while all that caused the fright was still present. The severely sprained ankle was received on shipboard at the beginning of a four months' travel trip, and was perfectly healed in less than one day, although the thoughts surrounding me seemed to be strongly antagonistic to all I was striving to know.

I have had the great happiness of attending The Mother Church during all this time, and the services have lost nothing of their helpfulness with the years. Tonsillitis, which seemed the most persistent of the old complaints, was finally wiped out at a Wednesday evening testimony meeting, twelve or more years ago. It had been coming less and less frequently, but still coming, until one Wednesday morning, when it made a vigorous claim upon my attention. All day long I alternately worked to bring about healing and then swallowed to see what physique had to say about it. In other words, I did not do my mental work well or scientifically; and when dinner time came I was unable to eat. However, I went to the meeting and at once corrected my thinking, and received with open mind the goodness, love, and truth expressed. I was completely healed before the meeting closed, eating a good dinner soon after; and I have never had another touch of that complaint.

All this is but a fragment of the good I have received. I have not touched upon the professional and financial aid which I have had over and over again as a direct result of this study and through help received from other students; and if I should attempt to record the benefits that have come through our literature, I am sure I should end by writing a book.

I am most grateful that the increased understanding of God, good, that has come through Christian Science has resulted in teaching me to love my neighbor as I had never even conceived of as being possible in the past; and I find myself more and more thankful for the assurance of the truth that Mrs. Eddy has written in our precious textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 570), "Millions of unprejudiced minds—simple seekers for Truth, weary wanderers, athirst in the desert—are waiting and watching for rest and drink." May I never fail to recognize these wanderers and to be ready with the "cup of cold water"!

(Miss) Amy F. Dalrymple, Boston, Massachusetts.

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