It is with the most sincere appreciation of the life of our...

Grace Archer Smith

It is with the most sincere appreciation of the life of our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, that I wish to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me and mine. When I turned to it for healing there was scarcely an organ in my body performing its natural functions, and I had got to where I seriously wondered how each medicine I was taking knew just where it was supposed to go. The practitioner was most loving and patient, and very soon I began to understand that God is the God of love, who did not send all this suffering to chastise me, as I had always been taught to believe, but that He did care for me and was more than willing to help me if I turned to Him in the right way. It is needless to say that as a little of the truth began to dawn on my consciousness I became so absorbed in the study of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, that in a few months I was a well woman, in better health than I could ever remember. Further proof of this healing was my regaining the thirty-five or forty pounds that made my weight normal.

I was most grateful for this healing, but the understanding of the Bible that was unfolded to me, explaining many seemingly contradictory statements, meant more to me than any physical healing.

During these years we have had many, many healings in our family of four. Our youngest son was healed of every manifestation of a fully developed case of mumps in three days. The pain was destroyed in a few hours. This was indeed a proof of the efficacy of our Leader's admonition to "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health, p. 392), because from the minute he awoke in the morning, we refused to acknowledge that the error had any reality; so it had to go back to its native nothingness. If we would only do this with all our problems, how much more harmony we would reflect!

This same boy was healed also of enlarged glands; in less than two months the enlargement opened of itself and after discharging was soon normal. He has been a well, strong boy ever since. This was wonderful to us all, as he had had a much lighter case of the same trouble a few years before. Then he was under medical treatment, and suffered for months, never seeming to recover; and the doctor gave us little hope of any real health for him in the future.

We have also had healings of influenza, measles, chicken pox, adenoids, croup; and this winter I was healed of two broken ribs by Christian Science treatment.

I do not know what we should have done without the truth during a severe trial three and a half years ago, when we were seriously betrayed in business by those whom we had trusted. This involved others more seriously than ourselves, and I do not like to think what might have been the consequences had it not been for the sustaining power of Truth. Truly, as we read in Isaiah, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee."

I am most grateful for the Manual of The Mother Church and the Christian Science literature; in fact, for all of our church activities. I should be very ungrateful if I did not express deepest gratitude to the practitioners and kind friends who have given me of their loving thoughts when I most needed them.—(Mrs.) Grace Archer Smith, Longmeadow, Massachusetts.

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